Abstract
Developable surfaces are widely used in various engineering applications. However, little attention has been paid to implementing developable surfaces from the onset of a design. The first half of the paper describes a user friendly method of designing developable surfaces in terms of a B-Spline representation whose two directrices lie on parallel planes. The second half of the paper investigates a new method for development and tessellation of such B-Spline developable surfaces, which is necessary for plate cutting and finite element analysis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 453-461 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 Sept |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design