A model to predict minimum required clamp pre-loads in light of fixture-workpiece compliance

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1031-1054

  De Meter, Edward C ^a   Xie, Wei ^a   Choudhuri, Shabbir ^a   Vallapuzha, Subramanian ^a   Trethewey, Martin W ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clamping; Clamping analysis; Fixturing

Indexed keywords

CLAMPING DEVICES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CLAMP PRE-LOAAD MODELS; FIXTURE-WORKPIECE SYSTEMS;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0035341665     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(00)00114-0     Document Type: Article

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