Heat Transfer Analysis of 3D Printed Wax Injection Mold Used in Investment Casting.

ABSTRACT: Investment casting is one of the precise casting methods where disposable wax patterns made in wax injection molds are used to make a casting mold. The production capacity of precision foundry is determined by the time taken for producing wax patterns, which depends on the time taken for wax solidification. Wax injection molds are usually made of aluminum or copper alloys with the use of expensive and time-consuming computer numerical control (CNC) processing, which makes low-volume production unprofitable. To reduce these costs, the authors present a heat transfer analysis of a 3D printed wax injection mold. Due to the low thermal conductivity of the photopolymer resin, the influence of different cooling channels' shapes was investigated to improve the time of the manufacturing process. T

SUBMITTER: Burlaga B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9571762 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature