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Design limits of unbonded laminate tooling for pressure die-casting

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posted on 2009-05-26, 11:08 authored by Rupert C. Soar, Phill M. Dickens
This paper describes a new concept for the construction of prototype tooling specifically for pressure die-casting. The tools are made by clamping together laser-cut profiles in H13 tool steel sheet. The result of this endeavour has been the creation of a low cost, flexible, scalable and robust tooling system for design validation that allows multiple design iterations to be examined on the actual pressure die-casting equipment used in the production environment. Work to date has shown that relatively large up-standing features can withstand the forces of molten metal during injection.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

SOAR, R.C. and DICKENS, P.M., 2001. Design limits of unbonded laminate tooling for pressure die-casting. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 215 (4), pp. 531-543

Publisher

Professional Engineering Publishing / © IMechE

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2001

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture [© IMechE]. It is also available at: http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/119784

ISSN

0954-4054

Language

  • en

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