Robustness evaluation for compliant assembly systems

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 262-267

  Hu, S J ^a   Webbink, R ^a   Lee, J ^a   Long, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FIXTURES (TOOLING); FLANGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SHEET METAL; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

COMPLIANT ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; VARIATION ANALYSIS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0037868127     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1563633     Document Type: Article

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