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Preface v
Helmut Potente and Hans-Peter Heim
One-shot Manufacturing: What is Possible with New Molding Technologies 1
James F. Stevenson
Chapter 1: Gas Assisted Injection Molding 15
Gas Assist Injection Molding. The North American Legacy 15
Jack Avery
Flow Directions in the Gas Assisted Injection Molding Technology 27
Young Soo Soh and Chan Hong Chung
Gas-assisted Injection Molding: Influence of Processing Conditions and
Material Properties 35
Kurt W Koelling and Ronald C Kaminski
Cover Part as an Application Example for Gas-assisted Injection Molded Parts 43
Michael Hansen
Molded Part Design for the Gas Injection Technique 51
H. Potente and H.-P. Heim
Design Optimization of Gas Channels for an Air Cleaner Assembly Using
CAE Simulations 57
D.M. Gao, A. Garcia-Rejon, G. Salloum and D. Baylis
The Occurrence of Fiber Exposure in Gas Assist Injection Molded Nylon
Composites 65
Shih-Jung Liu and Jer-Haur Chang
Saving Costs and Time by Means of Gas-assisted Powder Injection Molding 73
Christian Hopmann, Walter Michaeli
Gas-assisted Reaction Injection Molding (GRIM): Application of the Gas
Injection Technology to the Manufacturing of Hollow Polyurethane Parts 79
I. Kleba, E. Haberstroh
Chapter 2: Thin Wall Molding 89
Thin Wall Processing of Engineering Resins: Issues and Answers 89
Larry Cosma
ii Table of Contents
Effects of Processing Conditions and Material Models on the Injection
Pressure and Flow Length in Thinwall Parts 99
A. J. Poslinski
10 Common Pitfalls in Thin-Wall Plastic Part Design 107
Timothy A. Palmer
Flow Instabilities in Thin-wall Injection Molding of Thermoplastic Polyurethane 113
Christian D. Smialek, Christopher L. Simpson
Pressure Loss in Thin Wall Moldings 121
John W. Bozzelli, Jim Cardinal, and Bill Fierens
Integrating Thin Wall Molders Needs into Polymer Manufacturing 127
W. G. Todd, H. K. Williams, D. L. Wise
Thinning Injection Molded Computer Walls 133
Lee Hornberger and Ken Lown
Chapter 3: Molding Micro Parts and Micro Structures 143
Transcription of Small Surface Structures in Injection Molding an Experimental
Study 143
Uffe R. Arl, Erik M. Kjr
Injection Molding of Sub- m Grating Optical Elements 149
R. Wimberger-Friedl
Process Analysis and Injection Molding of Microstructures 157
Alrun Spennemann and Walter Michaeli
Simualtion of the Micro Injection Molding Process 163
Oliver Kemmann, Lutz Weber, Ccile Jeggy, Olivier Magotte, and
Franois Dupret
Chapter 4: Manufacturing of Composites 171
Melt Compression Molding (MCM) a One-shot Process for In-mold Lamination
and Compression Molding by Melt Strip Deposition 171
Georg H. Kuhlmann
In-mold Lamination Back Compression Molding 187
Thomas Huber
Analysis and Characterization of Flow Channels during Manufacturing of
Composites by Resin Transfer Molding 193
R. V. Mohan, K. K. Tamma, S. Bickerton, S. G. Advani and D. R. Shires
Optimization of Channel Design in VARTM Processing 209
Roopesh Mathur, Suresh G. Advani and Bruce K. Fink