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Design tool
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TL;DR: The article reviews what has been achieved in areas where the C-concepts can be applied fruitfully in the study of the displacement type finite element method and provides a more complete paradigmatic understanding of the issues involved.
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TL;DR: In this article, the modal approach to integrated structural optimization of aircraft structures offers huge computational savings with acceptable loss of accuracy, particularly in the static disciplines, where high-order modal perturbations are introduced for improved accuracy with large move limits.
Abstract: The modal approach to integrated structural optimization of aircraft structures offers huge computational savings with acceptable loss of accuracy. The addition of the modal option to existing full-order discrete-coordinate optimization schemes is shown in this paper to provide a very flexible design tool with improved cost effectiveness in typical aerospace design cases. Extensive changes in the modal-based formulation are introduced to expand the scope of its applicability, particularly in the static disciplines. Fictitious masses are used to account for local effects caused by concentrated loads. High-order modal perturbations are introduced for improved accuracy with large move limits. An optional hybrid approach allows the use of modal aeroelastic trim with subsequent discrete-coordinate stress/strain analysis. The new formulation includes the necessary sensitivity analysis for an adequate application in conjunction with the modeling tools of the discrete approach. Tradeoff studies with a realistic generic fighter aircraft model demonstrate the new capabilities.
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29 Sep 2018
TL;DR: This workshop aims to create a first overview of the combined Participatory Design / Design Fiction process, including a set of practical examples, and invites not only interaction design researchers and practitioners, but also participants from related fields such as creative writers and artists in general.
Abstract: Participatory design is in essence very malleable as any design technique could lend itself to it, as long as users and stakeholders are involved. Design fictions however, have more often been used as either a vehicle for critical designs, or as a sheer design tool, created by designers for designers as a means to drive ideation. In the 2010s however, the HCI community has opened up for using design fictions in conjunction with participatory methods and in parallel, researchers have started to explore the practices of creating and using fictions more thoroughly. In response to this, this workshop aims to explore if, how, and when in the design process participatory design practices and design fictions can be combined. We aim to create a first overview of the combined Participatory Design / Design Fiction process, including a set of practical examples. In this we invite not only interaction design researchers and practitioners, but also participants from related fields such as creative writers and artists in general.
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01 Sep 2008
TL;DR: In this article, an electromagnetic dimensioning model, parameterized by FEA, is coupled to a thermal lumped-parameter model to constitute a fast and efficient design tool for electrical machines.
Abstract: The design of modern high power density permanent magnet synchronous machines requires adapted automated design tools. The temperature estimation at characteristic points of the machine, and in particular in permanent magnets, is essential to accurately simulate the electromagnetic behavior and avoid irreversible demagnetization. In this paper, an electromagnetic dimensioning model, parameterized by FEA, is coupled to a thermal lumped-parameter model to constitute a fast and efficient design tool for electrical machines. On two standard industrial servo-motors the whole design process, including sizing, electromagnetic and thermal modeling is applied and discussed.
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TL;DR: The paper presents a general framework of DFD methodology and its potential to be used as a virtual prototyping tool, and an algorithm that can be readily tied into a computer aided design system, therefore also useful forvirtual prototyping.
Abstract: The design paradigm called virtual prototyping (VP) is important because of the need to manufacture products in a short period of time and in a cost effective manner. By replacing the building of physical prototypes for testing various design issues such as usability, life-cycle analysis, functionality and so on with so called “virtual models” on a computer and analyzing them, virtual prototyping is achieved. One of the design issues that has become increasingly important is the “design-for-disassembly (DFD)” paradigm. A well designed product that is easy to disassemble has the obvious advantages when it needs to be taken apart for service or end-of-life recycling. Therefore a design tool that can tie the DFD issues into a virtual prototyping system is of considerable interest. This paper attempts to address this particular issue in the virtual prototyping area: DFD as applied to VP. This paper presents an overview of a detailed DFD method. An algorithm that can be readily tied into a computer aided desig...
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