In the era of market globalisation, the quality of products has become a key factor for
success in the manufacturing industry. The growing demand for customised products …

In a free state, nonrigid parts can take on different shapes compared to their design model.
Such behavior of nonrigid parts introduces particular challenges to engineers during the …

Nowadays products having complex freeform custom-made shapes can be fabricated
without any tool by means of additive manufacturing processes. Additive manufactured parts …

Quality control is an important factor for manufacturing companies looking to prosper in an
era of globalization, market pressures, and technological advance. The functionality and …

Virtually mounting nonrigid parts onto their fixture is proposed by researchers to remove the
need for the use of complex physical inspection fixtures during the measurement process …

One of the conventional ways to inspect deformable parts is to compare a data model
against its nominal CAD model. This process assumes that the data model includes most of …

Dimensional inspection is an important element in the quality control of mechanical parts
that have deviations from their nominal (CAD) model resulting from the manufacturing …

In a free-state condition, deformable bodies (or compliant parts) have a significantly different
shape than their nominal geometry (CAD model) due to gravity loads and residual stress …

A general scheme to validate the shape of a deformable part consists in performing a non-
rigid alignment between measurements on the part's surface with its CAD model. In many …

In order to inspect deformable parts, recent works use virtual deformation on a digitized
version of a real-part to bring the part model back to its nominal shape. This simulation …