Navigating the Tolerance Analysis Maze

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 705-718

  Shah, Jami J ^a   Ameta, Gaurav ^a   Shen, Zhengshu ^b   Davidson, Joseph ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UGS Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

CATS; Computer aided Tolerance Analysis; GD T; Math modeling of tolerances

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED TOLERANCE ANALYSIS; DECOUPLED ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC SIMULATION; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250754310     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16864360.2007.10738504     Document Type: Article

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