Author:Machaka, Ronald; Ndlangamandla, P; Seerane, Mandy NDate:Feb 2018This paper reports on an attempt to establish the rheological properties of 17-4 PH stainless steel MIM feedstocks prepared using a proprietary CSIR wax-based binder system. The influence of powder and feedstock characteristics on the rheological ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, L; Botha, RADate:Oct 2013Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) systems have produced a new convention in writing where vowels are often omitted, where new suffixes have appeared, where numerals and symbols often appear in the place of letters which have a similar shape or ...Read more
Author:Seerane, M; Chikwanda, H; Machaka, RonaldDate:Jul 2015Debinding involves long and delicate processing periods of removing binder components
from a green body after injection moulding; failure to completely remove the binder components
results in distortion, cracking, blisters and contamination ...Read more
Author:Seerane, Mandy; Ndlangamandla, P; Machaka, RonaldDate:Oct 2016Metal injection moulding (MIM) is a near-net-shaping powder metallurgy technique suitable for the cost-effective mass production of small and complex components. In this paper, the effects of the metal powder particle size on the final ...Read more
Author:Seerane, Mandy N; Ndlangamandla, P; Machaka, RonaldDate:Oct 2016Metal injection moulding (MIM) is a near-net-shaping powder metallurgy technique suitable for the cost-effective mass production of small and complex components. In this paper, the effects of the metal powder particle size on the final ...Read more
Author:Seerane, MN; Chikwanda, HK; Focke, W; Machaka, RonaldDate:Oct 2013Powder loading is one of the most critical factors in metal injection moulding (MIM) technology. It largely determines the success or failure of the subsequent MIM processes. A gas-atomized Ti6Al4V powder was investigated to determine an ...Read more
Author:Seerane, M; Chikwanda, H; Focke, W; Machaka, RonaldDate:Oct 2014Debinding is one of the most critical and time consuming stage in metal injection moulding (MIM). German and Bose (1997) reported that early debinding practice relied on thermal binder degradation, requiring up to 300 hours for complete binder ...Read more