Generation of component degrees of freedom from assembly surface mating constraints

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Rajan, Venkat N ^a   Lyons, Kevin W ^b   Sreerangam, Raj ^b  

^a Wichita State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

constraint management; Design methods and models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

ASSEMBLY DESIGNS; ASSEMBLY MODEL; FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; MATING CONSTRAINTS; MULTIPLE CONSTRAINT; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0344403814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC97/DTM-3894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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