The authors present a method of preparing an aluminum shoe mold by a novel process called vacuum sealed casting. It was determined that the prototype shoe should be made of a resin, and then the mold should be made of aluminum. A composite resin was chosen such that the thermal conductivity, dimension accuracy, and wear resistance were greater than those of the pristine resin. The use of the aluminum mold ...
This research studied the addition of aluminum particles to an epoxy material, for use in micro-scale structures. For our interests, the thermal conductivity of the aluminum-epoxy composite was compared to that of the epoxy alone. Particle size was also taken into consideration during testing. It was determined that the epoxy-aluminum composite has a higher thermal conductivity, than the epoxy alone. Also noted, the larger the particle size, the more thermally ...
