This paper discusses design criteria and procedures for straight and curved chambers to aid the assembly of parts. The chamfer is assumed rigid and the mating part compliant. Various criteria concerning the insertion force are used to derive chamfer shapes and slopes, both analytically and synthetically. The theory is verified by experiments.
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