An investigation of the effectiveness of fixture layout optimization methods

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 251-263

  Vallapuzha, Subramanian ^a   De Meter, Edward C ^b   Choudhuri, Shabbir ^a   Khetan, Raghunath P ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixture layout optimization; Fixturing; Genetic algorithm

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MACHINING; OPTIMIZATION;

FIXTURE LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0036027430     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(01)00114-6     Document Type: Article

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