Plastic Mold & Die Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Plastic Mold & Die Design (subject code BE05023031) as prescribed for Plastic · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05023031)Unit 1 Introduction of Injection Mold
- Two-Plate Mold: Introduction of Two Plate Injection Mold
- Constructional Details of Two Plate Mold
- Three-Plate Mold: Introduction
- Construction and Working: Stripper Plate Mold
- Double Daylight Underfeed Mold
- Double Daylight Underfeed-Stripper Plate Mold
- Runner Ejection Techniques
- Comparison with Two Plate Mold
Unit 2 Mold Cooling
- Cooling integer type mold plates
- Cooling insert- bolster assembly
- cooling other mold parts
Unit 3 Split Mold
- sliding splits
- Angled –lift splits
- Standard parts for the splits type mold
Unit 4 Side core and side cavities
- Design Features
- Types of Side core and side cavities
- Standard mold parts
- BIS Standard- IS 3703 (Code of Practice for Design and Construction of Injection Molds)
Unit 5 Molding internal undercuts
- Form pin, split cores
- side cores
- stripping internal undercuts
- standard mold parts
Unit 6 Mold for threaded components
- Molds for internally threaded components
- Molds for externally threaded components
- Mold construction
- Standard unscrewing type mold systems
Unit 7 Design of Extrusion Dies
- Parts of the Die, its functions
- design formula for design of approach section
- land, etc
- Rheological considerations
- Design of straight through dies with calculations
- Design of crosshead dies