Approximating circular arcs by Bezier curves and its application to modelling tooling for FE forming simulations

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 703-717

  Lin, J ^a   Ball, A A ^a   Zheng, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPERPLASTICITY;

BEZIER CURVES; DECORATIVE PATTERN WRAPPING; TANGENT MAGNITUDE PARAMETERS (TMP);

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 0035314156     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(00)00100-0     Document Type: Article

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