Most injection-moulded plastics are injection moulded into moulds made from conventional materials such as steel or aluminium. The production costs of the mould are considerable. 3D printing from plastic can be used for injection moulds to save these...
This work reports the fabrication of a new environmentally friendly three-electrode electrochemical sensor suitable for on-site voltammetric determination of two toxic emerging ‘technology-critical elements’ (TCEs), namely indium and thallium. The se...
Car interior design should evoke emotions, offer comfort, convey safety and at the same time project the brand identity of the car manufacturer. Lighting is used to address these functions. Modules required for automotive interior lighting often feat...
Polymer surfaces are increasingly being functionalized with micro- and nano- surface features using mass replication methods such as injection moulding. An example of these are microneedle arrays, which contain needle-like microscopic structures, whi...
The pursuit of polymer parts produced through foam injection moulding (FIM) that have a comparable surface roughness to conventionally processed components are of major relevance to expand the application of FIM. Within this study, 22% talc-filled co...
Injection moulding is a polymer processing method of choice for making plastic parts on industrial scale, but its traditional mould is made from tooling steel with time-consuming and costly production. Additive manufacturing technologies arise as an...
Scientific moulding, also known as decoupled injection moulding, is a production methodology used to develop and determine robust moulding processes resilient to fluctuations caused by variation in temperature and viscosity. Scientific moulding relie...
Freeform injection moulding is a novel technology for powder injection moulding where a sacrificial 3D printed mould (i.e., a soft tooling) is used as an insert in the injection process. The use of 3D printed moulds enable a higher geometrical design...
Microcellular injection moulding (MuCell®) is a polymer processing technology that uses a supercritical fluid inert gas, CO2 or N2, to produce light-weight products. Due to environmental pressures and the requirement of light-weight parts with good m...
To establish injection-moulded, natural fibre-reinforced polymers in the automotive industry, numerical simulations are important. To include the breakage behaviour of natural fibres in simulations, a profound understanding is necessary. In this stud...
Injection moulding is an extremely important industrial process, being one of the most commonly-used plastic formation techniques. However, the industry faces many current challenges associated with demands for greater product customisation, higher p...
The structure and mechanical properties of an injection-moulded short glass fibre (GF)-reinforced polymer composite were analysed through simulation methods. Fibre orientation, which evolves during the production of a thick-walled automotive part, wa...
As an example of the applicable process chain, a concave grating (1175 grooves/mm) with an active area of approx. 24 mm to 24 mm has been replicated by means of electroplating and further by injection moulding with polycarbonate, resulting in a surfa...
Injection moulding is one the most familiar processes for manufacturing of plastic parts by injecting molten thermoplastic polymers into a metallic mould. The cycle time of this process consists of the phases of injection, packing, cooling, and eject...
In this study, the production of stereocomplex PLA formulations (sc-PLA) by compounding and subsequent injection moulding at different mould temperatures was investigated. Several selective nucleating agents were identified and compounded with differ...
A new method, a 3D printing technique, in particular, selective laser melting (SLM), has been used to fabricate moulds for the injection moulding of thermoplastic microfluidic chips that are suitable for prototyping and early stage scale-up. The micr...
Micro-surface texturing of elastomeric seals is a validated method to improve the friction and wear characteristics of the seals. In this study, the injection process of high-viscosity elastomeric materials in moulds with wall microprotusions is eval...
This paper assesses the environmental burdens of a polypropylene product throughout the product’s life cycle, especially focusing on the injection-moulding stage. The complete life cycle model of the polypropylene product has been developed fro...
Continuous-fibre-reinforced thermoplastics are attractive materials for industries to cut down on weight in structural components. Recycling these parts or trims generated during production is difficult due to the reduced properties in materials inte...
This paper proposes an approach to an ANN-based temperature controller design for a plastic injection moulding system. This design approach is applied to the development of a controller based on a combination of a classical ANN and integrator. The co...
Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer with an ever-increasing number of applications, although its inherent brittleness limits its performance somewhat in structural applications. In this study, we analysed the influence of incorporating m...
The high production rate of conventional plastics and their low degradability result in severe environmental problems, such as plastic accumulation and some other related consequences. One alternative to these materials is the production of oil-free...
Micro-injection moulding (μIM) is a replication-based process enabling the cost-effective production of complex and net-shaped miniaturized plastic components. The micro-scaled size of such parts poses great challenges in assessing their dimension...
Fully bio-based materials based on thermoplastic starch (TPS) were developed starting from corn starch plasticized with glycerol. The obtained TPS was further blended with five pine resin derivatives: gum rosin (GR), disproportionated gum rosin (dehy...
Advanced materials such as metal alloys, carbon fibre composites and engineered polymers have improved athlete performances in all sporting applications. Advances in manufacturing has enabled increases in design complexity and the ability to rapidly...
Injection moulding of liquid silicone rubber (LSR) requires reliable computer-aided engineering simulations to support process optimisation, which in turn depend on accurate material data. In this study, thermo-physical and kinetic properties of a hi...
The effect of fibre length distribution on the fatigue behaviour of an injection-moulded PA66 carbon fibre composite is investigated. Two materials, short carbon fibre with a mean length of 100 microns, and long carbon fibre with a mean length of 580...
We recently introduced the possibility of performing operando small-angle X-ray scattering measurements using a novel industrially relevant injection moulding system for plastics. We show that useful time-resolving measurements can be performed with...
Injection moulding process stability is a key issue in ensuring suitable quality of plastic parts. External factors such as processing equipment malfunctions, environmental variations, or tool misuse require qualified professionals to handle the issu...
The manufacturing of inserts for micro injection moulding made of mortar material is presented in this work. The fabrication of the mortar insert described in this publication relied on a versatile and relatively fast rapid prototyping process based...
The investigation of mould inserts in the injection moulding process using metal epoxy composite (MEC) with pure metal filler particles is gaining popularity among researchers. Therefore, to attain zero emissions, the idea of recycling metal waste fr...
As the products made from wood–plastic composites (WPCs) become more sophisticated and required more detail profiles, the injection moulding processing method with wood pulp as the reinforcing material is the answer to cater to the rapid change...
A 1D model describing the dynamics of an injection moulding machine and the injection process is presented. The model describes an injection cylinder actuated by a dual-pump electro–hydraulic speed-variable drive and the filling, holding and co...
In this study, we describe the design and fabrication of an industrial injection moulding system that can be mounted and used on the NCD-SWEET small-angle X-ray scattering beamline at ALBA. We show how highly useful time-resolved data can be obtained...
This paper reports an investigation of the effects of process parameters on the quality characteristics of polymeric parts produced by micro injection moulding (μIM) with two different materials. Four injection moulding process parameters (injection...
In this contribution, the influence of the reaction injection moulding process on the thermomechanical material behaviour of aliphatic hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) based fast curing polyurethane is demonstrated. Uniaxial tensile tests, temperatur...
This study examines the use of injection moulding to evaluate mechanical properties in plastic products, such as shear and residual stresses. Key process variables like melt temperature, mould temperature, hold pressure duration, and pure hold durati...
This work presents a data-driven framework for early detection of polymer melt instability in industrial injection moulding using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) time-series models. The study uses six months of continuous production data comprising app...
The low cost and precise tolerances of plastic injection moulded products are a major reason for the popularity of the manufacturing method. The tolerances are greatly influenced by the equipment, raw material and moulding process. One challenge is t...
Biocompatible titanium scaffolds with up to 40% interconnected porosity were manufactured through the metal injection moulding process and the space holder technique. The mechanical properties of the manufactured scaffold showed a high level of compa...
Injection moulding is the most common fabrication technology used to shape plastics [...]
Due to lower magnetic properties of polymer-bonded magnets compared to sintered magnets, a complete redesign of the multipolar soft magnetic flux barriers in rotors with alignment guidelines was carried out to eliminate the frequently used rare-earth...
Material extrusion additive manufacturing of metal (metal MEX), which is one of the 3D printing processes, has gained more interests because of its simplicity and economics. Metal MEX process is similar to the conventional metal injection moulding (M...
Reducing weight not only consumes fewer resources for manufacturing but also requires less energy for transportation, thus preserving resources and reducing CO2 emissions. The latter part is of utmost importance in mobility applications. For example,...
The recycling of polymer composites remains a significant challenge due to both technical and economic obstacles. This study investigates the recycling potential of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) composites filled with carbon powder (CP), empl...
Short fibre-reinforced polymers (SFRPs) are increasingly used in structural applications where mechanical integrity under complex loading is critical. However, conventional modelling approaches often fail to accurately predict mechanical behaviour in...
The drive towards smart and sustainable manufacturing is leading companies to opt for environmentally conscious technologies. This study assesses the environmental and financial feasibility of using additive manufacturing, in this case, fused filamen...
Fenbendazole (FBZ) is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic administered orally to ruminants; nevertheless, its poor water solubility has been the main limitation to reaching satisfactory and sustained levels at the site of the target parasites. Hence, the e...
Hypereutectic Al–Si (20 wt.%) alloy parts were fabricated by employing a powder injection moulding (PIM) technique with a developed multi-component binder system composed of high-density polyethylene (35 wt.%), carnauba wax (62 wt.%) and steari...
New technologies are offering progressively more effective alternatives to traditional ones. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is gaining importance in fields related to design, manufacturing, engineering and medicine, especially in applications which requ...
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