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Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering Management /General
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GDT) has been playing an important
role in specifying the geometry of part features during the product design
stage. Tolerance stack analysis is then used to study the conformity of the
parts to the tolerance zone. Performing stack analysis is time consuming b
ecause geometric tolerances are complex to compute. This paper presents a t
echnique to formulate the bonus and shift tolerances (due to positional cal
lout) and convert them to equal bilateral expressions as in a coordinate to
lerance system. An example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the
expressions. The usage of the expressions is less conceptual and this makes
the application simple and direct. Most importantly, the results are shown
to be accurate and reliable.