Midsurface abstraction from 3D solid models: General theory and applications

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 905-915

  Rezayat, Mohsen ^a  

^a Electronic Data Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis model generation; Feature recognition suppression; Midsurface abstraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FEATURE RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0030296214     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(96)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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