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Robust Conceptual Design for a Robust Early Embodiment Design
Horber, Dennis; Li, Jiahang; Grauberger, Patric; Goetz, Stefan; Matthiesen, Sven; Wartzack, Sandro // 2024
Utilisation of Robust Design (RD) principles in early stages of product development can reduce costly iterations by identifying concepts that are less prone to functional losses caused by variations. ...
TOWARD A CONFIGURATION DESIGN METHOD FOR MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS
Rosen, David W.; Choi, Christina Youngmi // 2024
ometric structures. Behaviors such as negative index of refraction, negative Poisson’s ratio, or negative stiffness can be achieved with suitable lattice or other cellular structures at appropriate ...
Toward Intelligent Generation of System Architectures
Von Heissen, Oliver; Hanke, Fabian; Mpidi Bita, Isaac; Hovemann, Aschot; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
Designing new systems involves collaboration across mechanics, electronics, and computer science, often through multiple iterations. We introduce a method using large language models to streamline ...
USING AI TO GENERATE SHORT VIDEOS AS STIMULI FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN CREATIVITY
Han, Ji; Obieke, Chijioke C.; Zhao, Haosong; Jiang, Pingfei // 2024
Current computational idea generation support tools, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven ones, mainly produce textual and/or pictorial stimuli to support design creativity at the early ...
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE TEACHING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Masen, Marc; Butt, Ahmed Tamkin; Agg, Chloe // 2023
This paper draws parallels and contrasts between the Design-focussed learning tracks of the Mechanical Engineering courses at Imperial College London (ICL) and Nottingham Trent University (NTU). ...
A DFAM Framework for the Design of Compliant Structures
Air, Alan (1,2);Wodehouse, Andrew (1) // 2023
Additive manufacturing methods present prospects for designed mechanical deformation via the integration of controlled anisotropic lattice structure forms. Their assimilation into a Design for ...
A follow-up on the methodical framework for the identification, analysis and consideration of uncertainty in the context of the integration of sensory functions by means of sensing machine elements
Welzbacher, Peter;Geipl, Anja;Kraus, Benjamin;Puchtler, Steffen;Kirchner, Eckhard // 2023
When integrating sensing machine elements for in-situ measurements in technical systems, special attention must be paid to uncertainty to ensure the reliability of the provided information. ...
A hierarchical exploration of how design margins enable adaptability
Jacobson, Lindsey;
Ferguson, Scott // 2023
Our society is built on engineered systems. Engineers are becoming increasingly concerned with the sustainability of systems, particularly their ability to adapt to a changing world. Recently, there ...
A Method for Reducing Fuzziness and Accelerating New Product Modelling in CAD : the case of Design for Manufacturing
Bluntzer, Jean-Bernard;Barret, Régis; Ostrosi, Egon // 2023
Improvements in product development can increase the competitiveness of firms. However, new product development in CAD systems involves difficulties and uncertainties that increase along with the ...
A multi-criteria decision-making approach to optimize the part build orientation in additive manufacturing
Sartini, Mikhailo (1);Luca, Manuguerra (1);Claudio, Favi (2);Marco, Mandolini (1) // 2023
The part build orientation is a manufacturing variable that must be considered when designing a product to maximise AM opportunities. There are several approaches to selecting the best print ...
AI vs. Human: The Public's Perceptions of the Design Abilities of Artificial Intelligence
Chong, Leah (1);
Yang, Maria (2) // 2023
With the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the design process, it is crucial to understand how users will accept AI-designed products. This work studies how the public ...
AN APPROACH FOR THE INCLUSION OF LOADING CONDITIONS IN A POLYHEDRAL-BASED METHOD FOR EARLY VARIATION MANAGEMENT
Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres (1,2);
Teissandier, Denis (1);
Anwer, Nabil (2);
Ledoux, Yann (1);
Delos, Vincent (1);
Pierre, Laurent (2);
Garcia Gomez, Sonia Carolina (1) // 2023
The variation management and product quality processes are important tasks to guarantee the assemblability of the systems, the scrap reduction and to avoid delays on production and launching. The ...
Assistance System for graph-based 3D Visualization of Design Structure Matrices
Jan-Phillip Herrmann (1), Sven Tackenberg (1), Christoph Trojanowski (2), Carolin Pankrath (3), Sebastian Imort (1), Andreas Deuter (1) // 2023
The increasing number of product artifacts (e.g., mechanical or electronic components, software functions, documents) confronts small and medium-sized companies with the challenge of assessing change ...
Circular ecosystem structure and orchestration: outlining actions to innovate, integrate, and invest
Hofmann Trevisan, Adriana (1); Gonçalves Castro, Camila (1,3); Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Leonardo (2); Mascarenhas, Janaina (1) // 2023
Circular ecosystem is a growing research field that is gaining attention due to representing a more robust alignment structure than a single firm. However, prior research lacks empirical evidence on ...
Circularity of plastics through ecodesign : the case of French WEEE
Nève, Nicolas (1); Charbuillet, Carole (2); Pompidou, Stéphane (3); Perry, Nicolas (2) // 2023
While innovation in waste treatment processes continue to advance, plastics are still often put aside in comparison to other materials. It is especially the case for WEEE-plastics: as they are ...
Continuous simulation of variations during the design of endless fiber reinforced composite structure assemblies
Stephan Freitag, Stefan Goetz, Sandro Wartzack // 2023
Using composite materials like endless fiber reinforced plastics offers numerous advantages. Nevertheless, the material properties of composite materials lead to new challenges in the manufacturing ...
CREATING A MODULE TO EMPOWER ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO BECOME CHAMPIONS FOR EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION
Ojha, Pallavi; Sun, Angela; Raja, Asad; Varley, Julie; Agg, Chloe; Stringer, Linda // 2023
The state of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the engineering industry is troubling. The UK has the lowest proportion of female engineers in Europe at just 8%. The Royal Academy of ...
Design methods for Diagnosing and Locating Entangled Technical Debt in DevOps frameworks
Bonet Faus, José (1); Le Masson, Pascal (1); Pelissier, Ugo (1); Jibet, Nafissa (1); Bordas, Antoine (1); Pajot, Sébastien (2) // 2023
In the IT landscape, DevOps is the preferred approach for developing and maintaining rapidly evolving systems that require continuous improvements. Yet, DevOps frameworks do not entirely prevent the ...
Design of Wearable Tensegrity Structures Focusing on the Tension Propagation Function throughout the Body
Wakashima, Hiroki;
Kishino, Kodai;
Iizuka, Shinpei;
Tamachi, Masahiro;
Wesugi, Shigeru // 2023
Humans are able to perform skilful movements by coordinating muscles throughout the body. It has been revealed that not only neural mechanisms but also direct and dynamic interactions between body ...
DESIGNING WITH VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: EXPLORING OBJECT ATTACHMENT THROUGH DIGITAL INTERACTION
Taylor, Alex // 2023
The purpose of this feasibility master's study is to develop a framework for evaluating object attachment in a digital space. The article examines product design development through a game studies ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A CLASSIFIER AND A SIMULATOR TO SUPPORT THE DESIGN OF AN ANTI-DECUBITUS ACTIVE MATTRESS
Brunzini, Agnese;Rossi, Marta;Mandolini, Marco;Cappelletti, Federica;Germani, Michele // 2023
Approximately 10% of hospitalized patients develops decubitus ulcers that quickly degenerates into chronic illness that reduces the quality of life and requires expensive clinical management. The use ...
Development of a design support tool for synthesising multi-state mechanical device concepts
Majumder, Anubhab;
Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2023
Conceptual design synthesis, which focuses on generating solution alternatives, has a significant impact on the cost and quality of the final product. The development of radically new and ...
Development of a novel diabetic foot risk assessment for low-resource healthcare settings: A case study of lean design
Reddie, Madison;
Frey, Daniel // 2023
Interest in applying a “lean” philosophy to design has been slowly growing in recent years, but there are still few broadly applicable methodologies and illustrative cases published in the literature ...
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING DESIGN TEACHING
Valentine, Rod; Matthews, Jason // 2023
The aim of this paper is to appraise the use of digital technologies in the teaching of design. The continuing growth of digital technology in industry is difficult to ignore with, for example, the ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.