Including geometric feature variations in tolerance analysis of mechanical assemblies

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 795-807

  Chase, Kenneth W ^a   Gao, Jinsong ^a   Magleby, Spencer P ^a   Sorensen, Carl D ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENTS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

DIRECT LINEARIZATION METHOD; GEOMETRIC FEATURE VARIATIONS; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLIES; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0030263893     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15458830.1996.11770732     Document Type: Article

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