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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2004), "Assembly and disassembly of multi-component assembly models", Assembly Automation, Vol. 24 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2004.03324dad.007
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Assembly and disassembly of multi-component assembly models
Assembly and disassembly of multi-component assembly models
Keywords: Assembly, Computer aided design, Patents
Applicant: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, USAPatent number: US6,725,184Publication date: 20 April 2004Title: Assembly and disassembly sequences of components in computerized multicomponent assembly models
This patent relates to the field of automated analysis of CAD models, and more particularly, to the field of determining assembly and disassembly sequences for components within multi- component CAD models of assembled parts.
The invention involves methods for automated selective disassembly by analysing a geometric model of a multi-component assembly to determine an optimal disassembly sequence in a computationally efficient manner. In general, efficiency and optimality are related and one is usually achieved at the cost of the other.
The methods presented balance the requirements of computational efficiency and optimal solution by addressing the automatic determination of a selective disassembly sequence with fewer removals, and which can be computed in a feasible computation time.