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Study on tolerance modeling of complex surface

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The aim of this paper was to present a tolerance modeling method of complex features. Geometric deviation of a characteristic/feature is divided into intrinsic deviation and situation deviation based on the new generation geometrical product specification in the paper. On the basis of vector parametric representation of theoretical surface, intrinsic deviation between substitute surface and ideal surface is described by vector function. Based on 3D rigid body kinematics, homogeneous transformation matrix-based method is used to describe the situation deviation of the substitute surface relative to the reference feature in Euclidean space. An example was given using the proposed modeling method.

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  1. Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Yanlong Cao, Heng Zhang & Jiangxin Yang

  2. College of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, 333 Longteng Road, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Jian Mao

  3. College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Huadong), 739 Beiyi Road, Dongying, 257061, China

    Xusong Xu

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Cao, Y., Zhang, H., Mao, J. et al. Study on tolerance modeling of complex surface. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 53, 1183–1188 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-010-2892-z

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