Research on the selectable disassembly strategy of mechanical parts based on the generalized CAD model

• DOI: 10.1007/s00170-007-0990-3
• Publication Date: 2007-03-14T10:35:38Z
• Authors: Jianjun Yi; Bin Yu; Lei Du; Chenggang Li; Diqing Hu
• Keywords: Sequence (biology)

Disassembly has gained much attention due to the growing concerns of material resources, energy conservation, and environmental conscious. The process of disassembly attempts to breakup a product into several pieces, with the expectation that the pieces together have a net value greater than the discarded product. In analyzing these aspects, one needs to determine all feasible ways to disassemble a product. This is especially true for the complex products like automobile, aircraft, etc. Most researchers took the algorithm of complete-disassembly planning to design for disassembly, although the feasible disassembly sequence can be obtained, parts of a assembled entity should be removed totally. And the required S (refers to disassembly sequence) could be gained through the proper analysis and evaluation; however, there are so many difficulties in this process and it is hard to obtain the optimum solution, especially when there are many parts in assembled body (such as automotive product). Therefore, it is very necessary to research the selectable disassembly algorithm of mechanical parts. This paper puts forward an algorithm on the selectable disassembly strategy of mechanical parts based on disassembly wave concept. It is comparatively easy and efficient to search, and get the optimal selectable disassembly sequence of mechanical parts with less amount of computing. It is so significant for all the steps of maintaining, recycling and discarding.