experimental and theoretical investigations of mouldability for feedstocks used in powder injection moulding实验和理论研究用于粉末注塑原料的可塑性.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Volume 2007, Article ID 85150, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2007/85150 Research Article Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Mouldability for Feedstocks Used in Powder Injection Moulding ¨ C¸ etin Karatas¸, Adnan Sozen, Erol Arcaklioglu, and Sami Erguney Received 11 September 2006; Accepted 8 March 2007 Recommended by Agostino Bruzzone Experimental and theoretical analyses of mouldability for feedstocks used in powder injection moulding are performed. This study covers two main analyses. (i) The experimental analysis: the barrel temperature, injection pressure, and flow rate are factors for powder injection moulding (PIM). Powder-binder mixture used as feedstock in PIM requires a little more attention and sen- sitivity. Obtaining the balance among pressure, temperature, and especially flow rate is the most important aspect of undesirable conclusions such as powder-binder separation, sink marks, and cracks in moulded party structure. In this study, available feed- stocks used in PIM were injected in three different cavities which consist of zigzag form, constant cross-section, and stair form (in five different thicknesses) and their mouldability is measured. Because of the difference between material and binder, mea- sured lengths were different. These were measured as 533 mm, 268 mm, 211 mm, and 150 mm in advanced materials trade marks Fe−2Ni, BASF firm Catamould A0-F, FN02, and 316L stainless steel, respectively. (ii) The theoretical analysis: the use of artificial neural network (ANN) has been proposed to determine the mouldability for feedstocks used in powder injection moulding using results of experimental analysis. The back-propagation learning algorithm with two different variants an