EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
The complexity of modern products and design tools has made the exchange of design information more complex. It is widely recognised that the seamless capture, storage, and retriev...
EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
: This paper discusses design families and design individuals. Phase space is introduced to complement state space. Phase transition as a generic method of generating design famili...
EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
The goals of Design Rationale Capture (DRC) are improving design quality and reducing design time. These general goals have led to the design of many DRC techniques originating fro...
EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
A set of object oriented tools is presented which, when combined, yield an efficient parallel finite element program. Special emphasis is given to details within the concept of the...
EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Evolutionary computation is emerging as a new engineering computational paradigm, which may significantly change the present structural design practice. For this reason, an extens...
EWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
We explore the meanings of the terms as "structure," "behavior," and, especially, "function" in engineering practice. Computers provide great help in...