More and more often in industry practical exigencies force the designer to
specify part tolerances statistically. Since most products are assemblies of
parts, in order to assess the part-level designs he must consider their
assembly-level implications. In particular, he must be able to combine
specified part-level variabilities to obtain an assembly-level variability.
In the simplest situation it is assumed that the populations of parts are
statistically independent and that the relevant part-level values combine
linearly to produce a linear gap function. Even this simplest case has wide
applicability. In ISO two approaches for statistically specifying mechanical
parts are being discussed. One of these defines acceptability of a population
of parts by requiring that the distribution function of the relevant values
of the parts be bounded by a pair of specified distribution functions. For
this approach to be useful, then, a method to compose part-level specifications
to yield assembly-level description is required. This paper supplies such a
method for the case of statistically independent populations of parts and
linear gap functions.
By: M. A. O'Connor and V. Srinivasan
Published in: RC20723 in 1997
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