A comparison of stiffness characteristics of serial and parallel machine tools

Journal of Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-76

  Tlusty, Jiri ^a   Ziegert, John C ^a   Ridgeway, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexapod; Machine tool; Platform; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; MACHINE TOOLS; MILLING (MACHINING);

CURRENT GENERATION; HEXAPOD; HIGH-SPEED SPINDLE; PARALLEL KINEMATICS; PARALLEL MACHINE TOOL; PLATFORM; STIFFNESS CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 0346348791     PISSN: 15266125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1526-6125(00)70014-4     Document Type: Article

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