Program for Structural Synthesis of the Multiple Fixtures.

This paper presents a program for structural synthesis -conception and design work-of the multiple fixture devices in the machine-tool structure. This program was created according to the principles of object-oriented programming. The program is also built upon two fundamental principles which characterize the evolution of the systems: the combination and the selection. The basic structural elements of the fixture devices are the clamping mechanisms. For this reason the program accomplishes clamping mechanism combinations, obtaining mathematically-possible combinations from which the combinations of technical incompatibility are excluded. Finally, the paper presents some fixtures functional structures obtained with the proposed program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]