Simulation, Animation and Analysis of Design Disassembly for Maintainability Analysis

• International Journal of Production Research, November 1995 vol.33, no.11, p. 2999-3022 (PDF 120Kb) with Ranko Vujosevic and Nagarjun Yetukuri
• Important part of my work is described on Page 10 and pp 27-32. The goal is to identify a disassembly sequence that ensures minimum disassembly cost and can be carried out by human technicians. This involves two parts, an algorithm to compute the sequence given qualitative relationship between components (pp 27-32) and use of JACK, a human modelling and animation system, being developed by UPenn.
• Work done during Aug 1993 - Jul 1995 at Center of Computer Aided Design, Iowa.