Publications related to Blow molding

Process-Induced Structures of Injection-Molded High-Density Polyethylene-Combining X-ray Scattering and Finite Element Modeling

The success of plastics heavily relies on fast melt processing methods used for large-scale industrial manufacturing, including injection molding. The hierarchical structure of the solid polymer depends on material selection combined with processing condit ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Scanning Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Injection-Molded Polymers: Anisotropic Structure and Mechanical Properties of Low-Density Polyethylene

Marianne Liebi, Manuel Guizar Sicairos

Injection molding is known to create a layered anisotropicmorphologyacross the sample thickness due to varying shear and cooling ratesduring the manufacturing process. In this study, scanning small-angleX-ray scattering was used to visualize and quantify t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Evaluation of a New Process for the Additive Manufacturing of Metal Antennas

German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave

This paper presents a new process for additively manufacturing purely metallic antennas based on Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), with a proprietary filament developed using a hot extrusion method and composed by a mix of rounded shape copper powders with ...

2023

Sustainable polyesters via direct functionalization of lignocellulosic sugars

François Maréchal, Harm-Anton Klok, Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Yves Leterrier, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Adrien Julien Demongeot, Graham Reid Dick, Christèle Rayroud, Thibault Rambert

The development of sustainable plastics from abundant renewable feedstocks has been limited by the complexity and efficiency of their production, as well as their lack of competitive material properties. Here we demonstrate the direct transformation of the ...

2022

Novel tooling for direct melt impregnation of textile with variotherm injection moulding: Methodology and proof of concept

Véronique Michaud, Vincent Werlen, Christian Rytka

Thermoplastic compression resin transfer moulding coupled with injection moulding is an appealing process for the production of thermoplastic composites. However, its implementation at an industrial scale remains challenging as variotherm injection mouldin ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

On the Limits of Precision Glass Molding for Diffractive Optical Elements

Karin Prater

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) consist of surface reliefs with dimensions in the micrometer range and nanometer precision. Two technologies dominate: Elements replicated in plastic and directly microfabricated elements in fused silica. Plastic DOEs ar ...

EPFL2017

Hybrid Processing of Thermoplastic Based Multimaterials

Rajasundar Chandran

There is a growing interest in exploring novel material combinations and processing technology to manufacture complex 3D shaped polymer and composite structures. In the field of prosthetics and orthotics, this need is significant with additional challenges ...

EPFL2017

Fabrication of slender elastic shells by the coating of curved surfaces

François Gallaire, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun

Various manufacturing techniques exist to produce double-curvature shells, including injection, rotational and blow molding, as well as dip coating. However, these industrial processes are typically geared for mass production and are not directly applicabl ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Precision glass molding of high-resolution diffractive optical elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

The demand of high resolution diffractive optical elements (DOE) is growing. Smaller critical dimensions allow higher deflection angles and can fulfill more demanding requirements, which can only be met by using electron-beam lithography. Replication techn ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Multilevel Micro-Structuring of Glassy Carbon Molds for Precision Glass Molding

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

Replication techniques for diffractive optical elements (DOEs) in soft materials such as plastic injection molding are state of the art. For precision glass molding in glasses with high transition temperatures, molds with extreme thermal resistivity, low c ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Fabrication of structured anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell by powder injection molding

Jan Van Herle, Antonin Faes, Zacharie Wuillemin, Amédée Zryd

Powder Injection Molding (PIM) gives the possibility to produce, at an industrial rate, ceramic parts with fine details. It is thus a possible approach to reduce the fabrication costs of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs). This work presents fabrication and el ...

2013

RoSe: A sub-GHz wireless sensor platform with housing integrated overmolded antenna

Anja Skrivervik, Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Mitko Tanevski

A wireless sensor platform for use in ultralow-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is presented. The proposed round sensor (RoSe) node is physically robust, is resistant to humidity, and has a housing that can be in direct contact with food. These charac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Porous metal article and method of producing a porous metal article

Andreas Mortensen

A process for producing a metal article containing at least 10% interconnected porosity, using a preform (11), comprising: mixing an organic binder, a wetting agent and a granular material, to obtain a mouldable paste that combines 10 vol. pct. or more of ...

2012

Preform to produce metallic foam

Andreas Mortensen

A process for producing a metal article containing at least 10% interconnected porosity, using a preform (11), comprising: mixing an organic binder, a wetting agent and a granular material, to obtain a mouldable paste that combines 10 vol. pct. or more of ...

2010

Mechanical spectroscopy in carbon nanotube reinforced ABS

Daniele Mari, Robert Schaller

Mechanical spectroscopy has been used to qualify possible improvements of the mechanical properties of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene-carbon nanotubes (ABS-CNTs) composites. The properties of ABS matrix are first investigated. Two relaxations that mark th ...

2009

Flow Properties of Tailored Net-Shape Thermoplastic Composite Preforms

Véronique Michaud, Patrick Blanchard, Simon Jespersen, Martyn Douglas Wakeman

A novel thermoplastic programmable preforming process, TP-P4, has been used to manufacture preforms for non-isothermal compression molding. Commingled glass and polypropylene yarns are deposited by robot onto a vacuum screen, followed by a heat-setting ope ...

Springer Netherlands2009

Film stacking impregnation model for a novel net-shape thermoplastic composite preforming process

Véronique Michaud, Martyn Douglas Wakeman, Simon Jespersen

An impregnation model has been developed to evaluate the infiltration phenomena that occur during a novel near net shape preforming method. This process comprises automated deposition of thermoplastic resin and unidirectional (UD) carbon fibres to a pre-pr ...

2008

Optimization of hybrid thermoplastic composite structures using surrogate models and genetic algorithms

Martyn Douglas Wakeman

Using an integrated processing methodology, an injection or compression moulded thermoplastic structure can be locally reinforced, for example, with textile structures or uni-directional fibre tows. Netshape components can be produced with cycle times typi ...

2007

Characterization of capillary forces during liquid metal infiltration

Maryam Bahraini Hasani

This thesis addresses the link between capillarity parameters, i.e. surface tension and contact angle, and the infiltration of porous preforms with molten metal by pressure infiltration The method used is to conduct pressure infiltration experiments of sel ...

EPFL2007

Tubular La0.7Ca0.3Fe0.85Co0.15O3-delta Perovskite Membranes, Part I: Preparation and Properties

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

Dense tubular self-supporting La0.7Ca0.3Fe0.85 Co0.15O3-δperovskite membranes were prepared by thermoplastic extrusion. The rheological behavior of the ceramic mixture was studied. Non-deformed tubes o ...

2006