Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process

• Main Authors: Altaf, Khurram, Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi, Ahmad, Faiz, Ahmad, Junaid
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Polymers and plastics; 3D Printing; Rapid Tooling; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88700; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45911
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Presently, mold material for metal injection molding (MIM) process is metal and are made through machining. However, machining could be time consuming, costly and skill intensive process to accurately process the mold. Moreover, for the demands when MIM part requirements are in low volume and fea...