Injection molded polymers

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Anisotropic materials have different properties in different directions (1-7). 1-Aamples include fibers, wood, oriented amorphous polymers, injection-molded specimens, fiber-filled composites, single crystals, and crystalline polymers in which the crystalline phase is not randomly oriented. Thus anisotropic materials are really much more common than isotropic ones. But if the anisotropy is small, it is often neglected with possible serious consequences. Anisoiropic materials have far more than two independent clastic moduli— generally, a minimum of five or six. The exact number of independent moduli depends on the symmetry in the system (1-7). Anisotropic materials will also have different contractions in different directions and hence a set of Poisson s ratios rather than one. 

S, -W. Kim. Three-Dimensional Simulation for the Filling Stage of the Polymer Injection Molding Process Using the Finite Element Method. PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 

L.-S. Turng and S.-W. Kim. Three-dimensional simulation for the filling stage of the polymer injection molding process using the finite element method. To be published, 2005. 

Chang, R.Y. Tsaur, B.D. Experimental and theoretical studies of shrinkage, warpage, and sink marks of crystalline polymer injection molded parts. Polym. Eng. Sci. 1995, 35, 1222. 

Chapter 12 deals with carbon nanotube (CNT) fiUed membranes for PCMs. CNT-filled polyethylene terephthalate was blended with various polymers, injection molded and characterized by different methods. 

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Micro injection molding has the most established tooling architecture of these four processes. The tooling consists of a metal, siheon (prototyping) [3], or electroplated mold with the associated machinery for high tempaature extrusion of the polymer. Injection molding machines and the dies associated with them tend to be large and costly. 

Soil, S.K. and Chang, C. J., 1986. Boundary conditions in the modeling of injection mold-filling of thin cavities. Polym. Eng. Sci. 26, 393-399. 

The economics of recycling PET are more favorable than recycling HDPE. To iacrease the recycling of HDPE, the separation of bottles made of these two plastics could be omitted and a mixture processed. Coarse, light-colored powders of the two polymers have been prepared by an experimental soHd state shear extmsion pulverization process (55). The powder has been successfully injection molded without pelletization. 

Suspension Polymers. Methacrylate suspension polymers are characterized by thek composition and particle-size distribution. Screen analysis is the most common method for determining particle size. Melt-flow characteristics under various conditions of heat and pressure are important for polymers intended for extmsion or injection molding appHcations. Suspension polymers prepared as ion-exchange resins are characterized by thek ion-exchange capacity, density (apparent and wet), solvent sweUing, moisture holding capacity, porosity, and salt-spHtting characteristics (105). 

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