Analysis of the effects of fixture clamping sequence on part location errors

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-382

  Raghu, Anand ^a   Melkote, Shreyes N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clamping sequence; Fixture; Location errors

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLAMPING DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MACHINING; WELDS;

CLAMPING SEQUENCE; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; LOCATION ERRORS;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0345867213     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2003.10.015     Document Type: Article

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