TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– Material variation is inevitable in volume production, especially the sheet metal thickness variation, which influences part stiffness characteristic. The purpose of this paper is to present a new variation model of compliant sheet metal assembly with consideration of material variation influence.Design/methodology/approach– The theory of computational solid mechanics is used to obtain the relationship between part stiffness matrix and material characteristic. The method of influence coefficients is adopted to deduce the assembly variation model.Findings– Material variation‐induced influence coefficients to assembly variation are obtained, and a variation model of compliant sheet metal assembly with sources of material variations, part geometric variations and fixture variations is presented. Analysis shows that material variation has an important influence to assembly variations.Originality/value– A quantitative relationship between assembly variations and material thickness variations is firstly given and a new variation model of compliant sheet metal assembly is presented to help designers to more exactly predict the assembly variation and diagnose variation sources.
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SN  - 0144-5154
DO  - 10.1108/01445150810889484
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150810889484
AU  - Yu Kuigang
AU  - Jin Sun
AU  - Lai Xinmin
AU  - Xing Yanfeng
ED  - Christoph Hanisch
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Modeling and analysis of compliant sheet metal assembly variation
T2  - Assembly Automation
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 225
EP  - 234
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -