Developable Surfaces: Properties, Representations and Methods of Design
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Authors
Mancewicz, Martha J.
Issue Date
1992
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
General Motors is interested in designing developable surfaces
using computers. A developable surface is one that can be formed
by bending a sheet of thin planar material. Developable surfaces,
then, may be formed from sheet metal more easily than nondevelopable
surfaces and are ideal shapes for binders used in sheet
metal stamping. The speed and efficiency of designing developable
binder surfaces would improve if current design methods could be
replaced by computer-aided design (CAD).
My job was to collect information on the mathematical
properties and computer representations of developable surfaces and
to summarize the information in a report. This paper is a modified
version of that report which I wrote for OM with the aid of Dr.
William Frey. Unless otherwise indicated, the mathematical results
found in the appendices are the product of discussions we had with
each other and occasionally with Dr. David Bindschadler.
Description
v, 34 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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