• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.6-9
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• 2008

Injection molding is representative process of plastic production. Most of numerical analyses for injection molding have been based on the Hele Shaw's approximation: two-dimensional flow analysis. The present work covers numerical analyses of injection molding using three-dimensional solid elements. The accuracy of the analysis results has been verified through some numerical examples in comparison with the various conditions. In this study, moldflow software was used to analyze the cooling analysis. The results of cooling analysis and testing catapult were compared for plastic products.

• 한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국분말야금학회 2006년도 Extended Abstracts of 2006 POWDER METALLURGY World Congress Part2
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• pp.761-762
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• 2006

W-Cu alloy was very useful material for a heat sink, high electric contact and EDM electrode. Powder injection molding (PIM) is the optimum manufacturing technology to provide W-Cu components with low-cost and high-volume. We used various compositions of tungsten coated copper powders (W-Cu with 10 to 80 wt-% of copper) to manufacture W-Cu components by PIM. The optimum mixing, injection molding, debinding and sintering conditions to provide the high performance W-Cu components were investigated. The thermal and mechanical properties of W-Cu parts by PIM were measured. Finally, we can verify the high performance of W-Cu components by PIM with the tungsten coated copper.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.261-264
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• 2000

The objective of this work was to characterize mechanical properties of thermoplastic composites for various forming condition in compression molding. Randomly oriented long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene(PP) was used in the work. The composite materials contained 20%, 30%, and 40% glass fiber by weight. Compression molding was conducted to make the test specimen. Dimensional stability was measured on each forming condition with the spring-forward angle. Tensile test was conducted to characterize mechanical properties of formed parts in various forming conditions.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2019

Warpage and weld line are two major cosmetic defects in the injection molding process. These defects are very sensitive to uncontrollable parameters within the process. The optimization of the design variables can be treated with the use of robust designs. Therefore, in order to minimize the warpage and weld line, a special design method to diminish defects is required. In this study, a new robust design method using designer preference to achieve the optimal robust design conditions in the injection molding process is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown with an example of the part of warpage and weld line.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2019

Analytical and experimental study were carried out in order to achieve simultaneous coating and injection molding of an automotive armrest. A mold was designed to be included one core and two cavities, which were composed of a substrate cavity and a coating cavity. The materials used were PC/ABS for substrate and 2-component Polyurethane for coating. The predicted flow patterns were in good agreement with experimental results in injection molding and in-mold coating. Based on analysis and experiment, it was found that the optimal processing conditions were packing pressure of 90MPa and holding time of 7sec.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2021

The 3 dimensional Pipe (Annular) Shaped Products was selected as a test sample, then a attribute of a molding shrinkage according to the parameters of a injection process was examined with PC, which is the typical engineering plastic. Both the inside and the outside diameter of the Pipe (Annular) sample were shrank into the inner direction of the part. And then the comparative analysis of the samples proved that a increasing thickness led a bigger shrinkage rate in the equal outside diametric samples, and a decreasing outside diameter caused a bigger shrinkage rate in the same thickness samples. The comparative study of the cushion volume of a injection machine showed that the molding shrinkage was most affected by the pressure strength among the resin temperature, the maintenance pressure strength and the maintenance pressure duration time. Each of the shrinkage rates according to the measuring direction and the gate position was different. As a result, the injection molded sample had not a typical circular shape.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1051-1057
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• 2011

최근 개발된 GMP공정의 활용으로 디지털 카메라, 광저장기기, 각종 전자기기 등의 광응용 기기에서 비구면 유리렌즈가 폭넓게 활용되고 있다. GMP공정은 복잡한 형상의 유리렌즈를 정밀하면서도 경제적으로 생산할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 다구치 실험계획법을 이용하여 순차이송형 GMP공정에서 비구면 유리렌즈의 성형 조건을 최적화 하였다. 냉각 1단계에서의 압력과 온도, 시간을 3가지 주요 공정변수로 정하였으며, 3캐비티 금형을 이용하여 실험한 결과 순차이송형 유리렌즈 성형공정에서 냉각시간이 비구면 유리렌즈의 형상정밀도(PV)에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2015

본 연구는 수술실 무영등용 PMMA 렌즈를 무결함 상태로 사출성형하는 조건을 조사하였다. 렌즈 제작용 수지는 PMMA를 적용하였으며 금형은 자체 제작한 가열-냉각 방식의 금형을 사용하였다. 사출성형 시 금형의 가열온도가 낮을수록 플라스틱 수지의 유동성에 영향을 미쳐 미성형이 발생하거나 웰드 라인, 플로우 마크가 발생하고, 가열온도가 높으면 휨 변형이 발생하였다. 이러한 결함은 냉각시간이 길어짐에 따라 PMMA 수지 결정화에 기인하는 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구를 통해 PMMA 수지로 결함이 없는 렌즈를 성형하는 최적의 조건은 금형 코어의 가열온도는 110[$^{\circ}C$]였으며, 냉각시간은 25[sec]임을 밝혀내어 최적의 가열-냉각 온도 프로파일링을 확립하는 계기를 마련하였다. PMMA소재를 이용한 광학렌즈의 제작은 낮은 생산단가를 구현할 수 있으며 이로 인해 수술실 무영등에 적용된 플라스틱 광학렌즈에 적극 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.388-395
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• 2015

The waste gate valve (WGV) for gasoline vehicles operate in a harsh high-temperature environment. Hence, WGVs are typically made of Inconel 713C, which is a type of Ni-based superalloy. Recently, the metal injection molding (MIM) process has attracted considerable attention for parts used under high-temperature conditions. In this study, an MIM analysis for the head and other parts of the WGV is conducted using a commercial CAE program Moldflow. Further, optimal manufacturing conditions are determined by analyzing flow characteristics at various injection times and locations. Moreover, to improve the accuracy of the analysis results, we compare the actual temperature of the mold during injection processing with that observed through the analysis. As the results, metal injection patterns of analysis are well in accord with these of short shot test. And the temperature variations of analysis is also very similar with those of feedstock when metal injection molding.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.650-654
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• 2020

A combination of Polycarbonate (PC) material and Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), fabricated using an injection molding machine, has been investigated to determine its advantages, as studied in Ref. 1). This paper aims to investigate the optimization of PMMA/PC blend for both tensile yield strength and impact strength. Furthermore, interaction effects of process conditions on mechanical properties including tensile yield strength and impact strength of PMMA/PC blend by injection molding process are interpreted in this study. Tensile and impact specimens are designed following ASTM, type V, and are fabricated by injection molding process. The processing conditions such as melt temperature, mold temperature, packing pressure, and cooling time are applied; each factor has three levels. As a result, in comparison with optimization of separated responses, mechanical properties of PMMA/PC are found to decrease when optimizing both tensile and impact strengths simultaneously. The melt temperature is found to be the most significant interaction parameter with the mold temperature and packing pressure. In addition, there is more interaction between the mold temperature and cooling time. This investigation provides a useful understanding of the control of injection molding processing of polymer blends in optical application.