Setting up the tolerance chain step-by-step

In the article ‘step plan tolerance analysis’, the steps to achieve a good tolerance analysis are briefly summarized. In the articles that followed, the method of adding tolerances is discussed. Much attention was paid to the statistics of dimensional...

Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis and Process Capability Index Cpk

Previous articles have discussed the application of statistics in tolerance analysis: how statistical addition works, how to incorporate the influence of different distributions, and combining worst-case with statistical contributions. The resulting picture is that...

Rolling Contact Fatigue

Up to and including release 3.2.0 of HertzWin, all calculated results related to a static situation. The most important material stresses for a static situation are the maximum shear stress and the Von Mises equivalent stress. Most commonly used to determine whether a...
Tangential Force Acting on a Hertzian Contact in HertzWin

Tangential Force Acting on a Hertzian Contact in HertzWin

With the program HertzWin you can calculate Hertz point and line contacts. The influence of a tangential force can also be calculated. HertzWin has been available online for free since March 2009. No approximation but the exact solution In older releases of HertzWin...

Refined, Advanced Tolerance Analysis

In previous articles about tolerance analysis, I discussed the step-by-step plan and the way of adding up. Adding up tolerances can be a worst-case sum or a statistical sum. In ‘The distribution of tolerances’ I also discussed the types of distributions...

The Distribution of Tolerances

In a previous article the statistical tolerance stack-up analysis is discussed. It is usually profitable to do a statistical tolerance stack-up analysis instead of a worst-case analysis. A worst-case analysis often leads to low tolerance specifications and therefore...

Statistical Tolerance Stack-up Analysis

In the article Worst-case Tolerance Stack-up Analysis you read about the worst-case or linear stack-up analysis. Such an analysis assumes that all dimensions in the tolerance chain have worst-case deviations form their nominal value. A statistical tolerance stack-up...