A Computational Approach to Innovative Conceptual Design

A Computational Approach to Innovative Conceptual Design
Author: Tolga Kurtoglu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2007
Genre: Computer-aided design
ISBN:

Conceptual design is a vital part of the design process during which designers first envision new ideas and then synthesize them into physical configurations that meet certain design specifications. In this research, a computational approach is developed to assist the designers perform this non-trivial task of navigating the design space for creating conceptual design configurations. The methodology is based on combining empirical reverse engineering techniques with a graph-grammar approach. Accordingly, design knowledge is systematically extracted from past designs, formulated as procedural grammar rules, and employed in building new design concepts. The implemented system provides a theoretical framework for automatically searching conceptual design spaces and produces novel alternative configurations to real design problems. The application of the approach to the design of various electromechanical devices shows the method's range of capabilities, and how it serves as a comparison to human conceptual design generation and as a tool to complement the skills of a designer.

Innovative Conceptual Design

Innovative Conceptual Design
Author: Ehud Kroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780521770910

Conceptual design, along with need identification and analysis, make up the initial stage of the design process. Conceptual design encompasses the generation of concepts and their integration into system-level solutions, leading to a relatively detailed design. This innovative text is devoted to the crucial initial design stage and focuses on parameter analysis. This methodology helps identify critical issues, or parameters, of the design and proposes configuration-specific solutions. The authors present real-world case studies. The book will appeal to engineering students, as well as to practicing engineers, architects, and product development managers.

Expressive Form

Expressive Form
Author: Kostas Terzidis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134371047

This book combines theoretical enquiry with practical implementation offering a unique perspective on the use of computers related to architectureal form and design.

ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2

ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2
Author: Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2014-12-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8132222296

This book showcases over 60 cutting-edge research papers from the 5th International Conference on Research into Design – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design across boundaries. The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the product and system innovation process, and the host of methods and tools from all major areas of design research for the enhancement of the innovation process. The main benefit of the book for researchers in various areas of design and innovation are access to the latest quality research in this area, with the largest collection of research from India. For practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of theories, models, methods and tools that can be taught and practiced for design-led innovation.

Improving Complex Systems Today

Improving Complex Systems Today
Author: Daniel D. Frey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2011-07-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0857297996

As the main theme of Improving Complex Systems Today implies, this book is intended to provide readers with a new perspective on concurrent engineering from the standpoint of systems engineering. It can serve as a versatile tool to help readers to navigate the ever-changing state of this particular field. The primary focus of concurrent engineering was, at first, on bringing downstream information as far upstream as possible by introducing parallel processing in order to reduce time to market and to prevent errors at a later stage which would sometimes cause irrevocable damage. Up to now, numerous new concepts, methodologies and tools have been developed, but over concurrent engineering’s 20-year history the situation has changed extensively. Now, industry has to work in the global marketplace and to cope with diversifying requirements and increasing complexities. Such globalization and diversification necessitate collaboration across different fields and across national boundaries. Thus, the new concurrent engineering calls for a systems approach to gain global market competitiveness. Improving Complex Systems Today provides a new insight into concurrent engineering today.

Innovative Approaches in Computational Structural Engineering

Innovative Approaches in Computational Structural Engineering
Author: George C. Tsiatas
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre:
ISBN: 2889636070

Nowadays, numerical computation has become one of the most vigorous tools for scientists, researchers and professional engineers, following the enormous progress made during the last decades in computing technology, in terms of both computer hardware and software development. Although this has led to tremendous achievements in computer-based structural engineering, the increasing necessity of solving complex problems in engineering requires the development of new ideas and innovative methods for providing accurate numerical solutions in affordable computing times. This collection aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art innovative developments, concepts, methodologies and approaches in scientific computation applied to structural engineering. It involves a wide coverage of timely issues on computational structural engineering with a broad range of both research and advanced practical applications. This Research Topic encompasses, but is not restricted to, the following scientific areas: modeling in structural engineering; finite element methods; boundary element methods; static and dynamic analysis of structures; structural stability; structural mechanics; meshless methods; smart structures and systems; fire engineering; blast engineering; structural reliability; structural health monitoring and control; optimization; and composite materials, with application to engineering structures.

Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science

Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science
Author: Masafumi Okada
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1029
Release: 2023-11-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031457099

This book gathers the proceedings of the 16th IFToMM World Congress, which was held in Tokyo, Japan, on November 5–10, 2023. Having been organized every four years since 1965, the Congress represents the world’s largest scientific event on mechanism and machine science (MMS). The contributions cover an extremely diverse range of topics, including biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, design methodologies, dynamics of machinery, multibody dynamics, gearing and transmissions, history of MMS, linkage and mechanical controls, robotics and mechatronics, micro-mechanisms, reliability of machines and mechanisms, rotor dynamics, standardization of terminology, sustainable energy systems, transportation machinery, tribology and vibration. Selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, they highlight numerous exciting advances and ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.

AVEC

AVEC
Author: Maxwell Blair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2008
Genre: Aeroelasticity
ISBN:

This report summarizes programming techniques that aid multidisciplinary design programmers in developing computational designs that measure AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) technology effectiveness. These techniques have been collected into an object-oriented design environment. The Air Vehicle Environment in C++ (AVEC) prototypes a practical approach toward computational design. Design innovators will benefit from AVEC at one of three levels. These three levels target (a) the end user through interactive operations and file I/O, (b) the object-oriented programmer through a compiled library of properly documented and inheritable objects, and (c) the AVEC developer who wishes to enhance AVEC capability with modifications to the source code. The pilot code presented here focuses on parent-child relationships, automated dependency management, geometry, meshing and analysis. All together, the overall capability leads to design variant management that will populate a response surface model and thereby address design optimization. The target SensorCraft design mission involves a suite of aeroelastic concepts with geometric non-linearity, in the form of non-linear coupling, large deformations and follower forces.--P. i.

Exploration and Innovation in Design

Exploration and Innovation in Design
Author: D. Navinchandra
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461231140

Exploration and Innovation in Design is one of the first books to present both conceptual and computational models of processes which have the potential to produce innovative results at early stages of design. Discussed here is the concept of exploration where the system, using computational processes, moves outside predefined available decisions. Sections of this volume discuss areas such as design representation and search, exploration and the emergence of new criteria, and precedent-based adaptation. In addition, the author presents the overall architecture of a design system and shows how the pieces fit together into one coherent system. Concluding chapters of the book discuss relationships of work in design to other research efforts, applications, and future research directions in design. The ideas and processes presented in this volume further our understanding of computational models of design, particularly those that are capable of assisting in the production of non-routine designs, and affirm that we are indeed moving toward a science of design.

Creative Solutions for a Sustainable Development

Creative Solutions for a Sustainable Development
Author: Yuri Borgianni
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030866149

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, TFC 2021, held virtually in September 2021 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4. The 28 full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They are organized in the following thematic sections: inventiveness and TRIZ for sustainable development; TRIZ, intellectual property and smart technologies; TRIZ: expansion in breadth and depth; TRIZ, data processing and artificial intelligence; and TRIZ use and divulgation for engineering design and beyond. Chapter ‘Domain Analysis with TRIZ to Define an Effective “Design for Excellence’ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.