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An introduction to engineering and engineering design
01 Jan 1969-
About: The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Civil engineering software & Biosystems engineering.
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TL;DR: An Artificial Intelligence program for mechanical engineering design, called Dominic, characterizes design as best-first search through a space of possible designs, and within its redesign framework, one can design a variety of mechanical devices.
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TL;DR: This paper describes the first working version of a program called Dominic that performs design by iterative redesign in a domain-independent manner, and describes in detail the program's strategy, which stresses the concept of redesign dependencies to guide its redesign process.
Abstract: This paper describes the first working version of a program called Dominic that performs design by iterative redesign in a domain-independent manner. The paper describes in detail the program's strategy, which stresses the concept of redesign dependencies to guide its redesign process. Dominic has been successfully tested in four different domains. Its performance on two of these (v-belt drive design and design of extruded heat sinks) is presented here. The redesign class of design problems on which Dominic works is that large class of problems that are intellectually manageable and solvable without subdivision into smaller parts. This includes the various subproblems ultimately created when large complex problems are decomposed for solution. Dominic is a hill-climbing algorithm, similar in this respect to standard optimization methods. However, its problem formulation or input language is more flexible for some design applications than optimization techniques. Work is continuing on a Dominic II in an effort to overcome some of the limitations of Dominic.
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...Textbooks on design nearly always present a model of the process [6-9]....
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01 Jun 1983TL;DR: The authors state their contention that design methodology is a useful contribution to design.
Abstract: The paper surveys design methodology, the science of methods of design. It discusses the aims of design methodology as well as objections to it. The various sources of design methodology are reviewed. The nature and structure of the design process are outlined. An organised presentation is given of methods of design concept generation. Finally the evaluation and decision steps in design are briefly analysed. In conclusion the authors state their contention that design methodology is a useful contribution to design.
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Cites background or methods from "An introduction to engineering and ..."
...gathered from others [9–12]; or the designer may use his or her own imagination, intuition, and creativity [13], or a combination of all of these....
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...Detailed discussions of the overall design process are beyond the scope of this book, but further information is given in [13] on the definition of the design problem, the invention of solutions and their evaluation, and in [21–24] on the execution of design....
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TL;DR: This work proposes a new approach to synthesis of engineering systems called EDESYN (Engineering DEsign SYNthesis), developed using a frame-based reasoning tool, which provides a domain independent environment for building design expert systems.
Abstract: The knowledge used in the synthesis of engineering systems includes understanding systems and their components and the implications of design decisions on other decisions on further problem decomposition. In using a knowledge based approach to synthesis, design knowledge can be characterized as planning knowledge, including design goals and planning or ordering of goals, and design knowledge, including alternative solutions for each goal and constraints on the selection of a solution for a given goal. This approach is implemented in a program called EDESYN (Engineering DEsign SYNthesis), developed using a frame-based reasoning tool. EDESYN provides a domain independent environment for building design expert systems.
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