Stamping blank optimal layout and coil slitting widths for single and multiple blanks

Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 482-488

  Nye, T J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0346546955     PISSN: 00944289     EISSN: 15288889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1395020     Document Type: Article

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