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Parallel Disassembly by Onion Peeling
Journal of Mechanical Design
  • Shiang-Fong Chen, Iowa State University
  • Shuo-Yan Chou, National Taiwan Institute of Technology
  • Lin-Lin Chen, National Taiwan Institute of Technology
  • James H. Oliver, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Date
6-1-1997
DOI
10.1115/1.2826246
Abstract

For some assembly structures, parallel disassembly of components is necessary in order to reach a particular internal component. Due to the large number of possible combinations, the parallel disassembly problem is not easily solved in a general form. In order to reduce the time complexity of finding a disassembly sequence, this paper introduces a simplified mating graph and develops a data structure to facilitate an efficient parallel disassembly algorithm. This algorithm takes Max {O(N3 ), O(E)} time to find an efficient sequence to reach a particular component, where N is the number of components and E is the number of mating faces. Separability testing is incorporated to determine whether the query component can be disassembled and moved to infinity without obstruction.

Comments

This article is from Journal of Mechanical Design 119 (1997): 267–274, doi:10.1115/1.2826246. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
American Society of Mechanical Engineering
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Shiang-Fong Chen, Shuo-Yan Chou, Lin-Lin Chen and James H. Oliver. "Parallel Disassembly by Onion Peeling" Journal of Mechanical Design Vol. 119 Iss. 2 (1997) p. 267 - 274
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james_oliver/15/