Injection molding has been the most popular method for making plastic products due to high efficiency and manufacturability. The injection molding process includes three significant stages: filling and packing stage, cooling stage, and ejection stage. Among these stages, cooling stage is very important one because it mainly affects the productivity and molding quality. Normally, 70%~80% of the ...

The presence of an already molded component during the second and subsequent molding stages makes multi-material injection molding different from traditional injection molding process. Therefore, designing multi-material molded objects requires addressing many additional manufacturability considerations. In this paper, we first present an approach to systematically identifying potential manufac...

OBJECTIVE Acrylic resin denture bases undergo dimensional changes during polymerization. Injection molding techniques are reported to reduce these changes and thereby improve physical properties of denture bases. The aim of this study was to compare dimensional changes of specimens processed by conventional and injection-molding techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS SR-Ivocap Triplex Hot resin wa...

During the last decades, society’s concern for the environment has increased. Specific tools like the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and software and databases to apply this method have been developed to calculate the environmental burden of products or processes. Calculating the environmental impact of plastic products is relevant as the global plastics production rose to 288 million tons in 201...

This paper proposes a neuro-fuzzy approach for optimizing injection molding parameter settings. The approach consists of design of experiments and neuro-fuzzy systems. Experimental data shows that the proposed approach performs better than the traditional trial and error practices usually involved in the injection molding process.