In high-speed polyolefin extrusion, the phenomenon of melt fracture—commonly appearing as sharkskin or surface roughness on the finished product—presents a critical barrier to increasing production ...

This text focuses on advanced methods for predicting and avoiding the occurrence of defects in manufactured products. It covers the major manufacturing operations, and considers conventional and new ...

Defects in angioplasty balloon material, which result in product discards, may represent a significant portion of production. Abbas Tcharkhtchi and Erik Andersen Angioplasty balloons are critical ...

Aluminum is particularly well suited to the extrusion process due to its excellent plasticity at extrusion temperature. Only a minor degree of work-hardening takes place at this temperature and ...

German companies are advancing aluminium extrusion with quality control, inspection, measurement, coating and surface-treatment technologies ...

Researchers from Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria and the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (Fraunhofer IKTS) in Germany have published a detailed study identifying and ...