Geometrical algorithms for automated design of side actions in injection moulding of complex parts

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 882-897

  Banerjee, Ashis Gopal ^a   Gupta, Satyandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration spaces; Geometrical reasoning; Mould design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COST FUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONFIGURATION SPACES; GEOMETRICAL REASONING; MOULD DESIGN; MOULDING COST;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 34548284978     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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