by Jaap Vink | 21 Apr 2020
In previous articles about tolerance analysis, I discussed the step-by-step plan and the way of adding up. The latter can be a worst-case sum or a statistical sum. In ‘The distribution of tolerances’ I also discussed the types of distributions that may...
by Jaap Vink | 28 Jan 2019
Occasionally, contact stresses play a role in a mechanical design. Herzian stress equations are needed to calculate indentation and to check if the yield stress isn’t exceeded. Because programming is a hobby of mine, it seemed like a good idea to make a Hertzian...
by Jaap Vink | 3 May 2017
Occasionally, I get the question why the content of the help function of one of the software applications from the toolkit isn’t visible. It only shows “Navigation to the webpage was canceled”. An other issue is that with high resolution (High DPI)...
by Jaap Vink | 28 Mar 2015
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...
by Jaap Vink | 16 Dec 2013
In the article Worst-case Tolerance Stack-up Analysis you read about the worst-case or linear stack-up analysis. In such an analysis it is assumed that all dimensions in the tolerance chain have worst-case deviations form their nominal value. In a statistical analysis...
by Jaap Vink | 22 Nov 2013
Suppose that you went through your tolerance analysis step plan and made a tolerance chain. The only thing to do now is to add up all tolerances. This seems easy enough but there are a few questions to consider: What to do with asymmetrical tolerances? Do you perform...
