Model of mobility state of parts: The automation of feasibility test in disassembly sequence generation

Abstract

Disassembly sequencing is a concurrent research subject in design for life-cycle. Many past and recent researches are made to give practical methods for disassembly sequencing. The problem of assembly information’s modeling is one of the important sub-problems of disassembly simulation. The problem includes connection determination, disassembly direction identification, and part mobility state definition. In the present paper, the authors propose a new representation model of disassembly directions, starting from geometric and assembly data of computer aid design models. This model is based on a mobility matrix definition for every part. This matrix is also called disassembly direction matrix. The model gives information about the mobility state of a part during disassembly sequencing by updating its mobility matrix. Mobility state data are used in a practical computing of disassembly sequence feasibility. In this paper, theoretical explication of this modeling is given and validated by computational results. In the validation section, the model is applied to a computer aid design mechanism using a selective disassembly.