Planning for modular and hybrid fixtures

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-60

  Wallack, A S ^a   Canny, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Force closure; Modular fixturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001866314     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00014420     Document Type: Article

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