Research on MIM achieved by cooperation between Femto-ST institute in France and SWJTU in China

Metal injection molding process consists of four main stages: feedstock preparation, injection molding, debinding and sintering. The Co-researches from FEMTO-ST institute in France and Southwest Jiaotong University in China covers all the four aspects in their activities. The co-tutorial Ph.D. thesis of Jianjun SHI made some improvement to the in-house developed vectorial explicit algorithm for simulation of injection molding and extended its function into the scope of micro-injection. For sintering stage, some new and interesting results were obtained in the microwave sintering experiments. Now the full cycle simulation on multi-physics coupling process of microwave sintering is realized.