Unilateral fixtures for sheet-metal parts with holes

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 110-120

  Gopalakrishnan, Kanakasabapathi ^a   Goldberg, Ken ^a   Bone, Gary M ^b   Zaluzec, Matthew J ^c   Koganti, Rama ^c   Pearson, Rich ^d   Deneszczuk, Patricia A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Fixturing; Form closure; Grasping; Modular fixturing; Sheet metal; Welding; Workholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY; CLAMPING DEVICES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FIXTURES (TOOLING); HOLE MOBILITY; JACK-UP RIGS; WELDING;

JAWS; MODULAR FIXTURING; UNILATERAL FIXTURES; WORKHOLDING;

SHEET METAL;

EID: 9244222699     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2004.835572     Document Type: Article

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