SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT COMPOSITE MOLDS MANUFACTURING

Abstract

In the present paper we propose the study of a under development Rapid Tooling technology. We developed a study based on Glass Fiber Reinforced Composite mold of a mannequin head. The paper describes a brief explanation of reinforced composite molding process Rapid Tools. Thanks to intensive research and development in the areas of material, process, software, and equipment, applications to rapid tooling have been developed by directly or indirectly employing rapid prototyping processes in the tool, die and mold fabrication. Usually, through Rapid Tooling there can be obtained tools called “soft” – of modern conception –which resist only at small or middle production series. While these tools are made, the “hard” tools can also be finished – the classical ones – which already allow big series productions.