Gap volume prediction for aircraft wing assembly

Ye Yang; Yan Jin; Mark Price; Gasser Abdelal; Paul Maropoulos; Colm Higgins

Gap volume prediction for aircraft wing assembly

Ye Yang, Yan Jin, Mark Price, Gasser Abdelal, Paul Maropoulos, Colm Higgins

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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In this work, two methods for predictive shimming based on laser scan technology and point cloud processing software have been presented. The first one is direct measurement method in PolyWorks, and the second one is feature-based modelling method in SolidWorks. Firstly, both component-level and assembly-level scans are collected by a laser scanner. Then, the point clouds are post-processed and registered in PolyWorks. Thirdly, gap information (shape and thickness) is obtained either in PolyWorks or in SolidWorks. Results show that the proposed methods can obtain gap information successfully based on current hardware and software.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 11 Oct 2021
Event	10th CIRP Sponsored Conference on Digital Enterprise Technologies (DET 2021) - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 11 Oct 2021 → 13 Oct 2021

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Conference	10th CIRP Sponsored Conference on Digital Enterprise Technologies (DET 2021)
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	11/10/2021 → 13/10/2021

Keywords

Predictive shimming
Laser scan
Point cloud data
Gap volume prediction
Aircraft assembly

Gap volume prediction and uncertainty analysis for aircraft wing assembly
Yang, Y. (Author), Jin, Y. (Supervisor), Abdelal, G. (Supervisor) & Price, M. (Supervisor), Jul 2024
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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Gap volume prediction for aircraft wing assembly
Yang, Y., Jin, Y., Price, M., Abdelal, G., Maropoulos, P. & Higgins, C., 30 Jul 2021, (Early online date) In: Procedia Manufacturing. 54, p. 227-232 6 p.
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Gap volume prediction for aircraft wing assembly

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Gap volume prediction and uncertainty analysis for aircraft wing assembly

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Gap volume prediction for aircraft wing assembly

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