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MULTIPLE CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION STUDIES IN REACTIVE IN-MOLD COATING

Cabrera Rios, Mauricio
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1022105843

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2002, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Reactive in-mold coating (IMC) products have been used successfully for many years to improve the surface quality of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) compression molded parts. IMC provides a smooth, sealed surface, used as a conductive or nonconductive primer for subsequent painting operations. The success of IMC for SMC parts has recently attracted the interest of thermoplastic injection molders. The potential environmental and economic benefits of using IMC as a primer and, in the ideal case, to replace painting completely are large. Acceptance of IMC as a competitor to the traditional painting processes will depend upon the improvement of its ability to deliver in-mold coated parts in short cycle times at the highest possible quality level. Most optimization studies in Reactive Polymer Processing involve compromising between different performance measures since, frequently, the controllable variables have conflicting effects on these measures. IMC is not the exception to the rule. The performance measures need to be balanced, each against the other, in order to obtain the best compromises. The goal of this research work is to develop an optimization strategy for the application of reactive in-mold coating to SMC and thermoplastic parts in presence of multiple and conflicting performance measures. To achieve this goal we explore the use of Artificial Neural Networks as metamodeling techniques and the use of Data Envelopment Analysis to solve multiple criteria optimization problems.
Jose Castro (Advisor)
210 p.
In-Mold Coating; Multiple Criteria Optimization; Artificial Neural Networks; Data Envelopment Analysis; Reactive Polymer Processing

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  • Cabrera Rios, M. (2002). MULTIPLE CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION STUDIES IN REACTIVE IN-MOLD COATING [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1022105843

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cabrera Rios, Mauricio. MULTIPLE CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION STUDIES IN REACTIVE IN-MOLD COATING. 2002. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1022105843.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cabrera Rios, Mauricio. "MULTIPLE CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION STUDIES IN REACTIVE IN-MOLD COATING." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1022105843

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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