Design tool

About: Design tool is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3864 publications have been published within this topic receiving 46401 citations.

Recent Trends and Developments of Crashworthiness Simulation Methodologies and Their Integration into the Industrial Vehicle Design Cycle

Abstract: Crashworthiness simulation has become an accepted and even indespensable design tool in the development of transport vehicles. Further developments of numerical models, and efforts of integration into the industrial design cycle are still happening at an accelerated pace. Numerical model developments concern basic algorithms, specific user friendly options, new materials and new applications. New applications of crashworthiness codes are in the field of occupant safety and sheet metal stamping. This survey paper discusses such development trends and it illustrates the results on simple benchmarks and on full scale industrial examples.

‘Materials as a Design Tool’ Design Philosophy Applied in Three Innovative Research Pavilions Out of Sustainable Building Materials with Controlled End-Of-Life Scenarios

Abstract: Choosing building materials is usually the stage that follows design in the architectural design process, and is rarely used as a main input and driver for the design of the whole building’s geometries or structures. As an approach to have control over the environmental impact of the applied building materials and their after-use scenarios, an approach has been initiated by the author through a series of research studies, architectural built prototypes, and green material developments. This paper illustrates how sustainable building materials can be a main input in the design process, and how digital fabrication technologies can enable variable controlling strategies over the green materials’ properties, enabling adjustable innovative building spaces with new architectural typologies, aesthetic values, and controlled martial life cycles. Through this, a new type of design philosophy by means of applying sustainable building materials with closed life cycles is created. In this paper, three case studies of research pavilions are illustrated. The pavilions were prefabricated and constructed from newly developed sustainable building materials. The applied materials varied between structural and non-structural building materials, where each had a controlled end-of-life scenario. The application of the bio-based building materials was set as an initial design phase, and the architects here participated within two disciplines: once as designers, and additionally as green building material developers. In all three case studies, Design for Deconstruction (DfD) strategies were applied in different manners, encouraging architects to further follow such suggested approaches.

SOSJ: A new programming paradigm for adaptive distributed systems

Abstract: A new programming paradigm that supports development of adaptive distributed control systems found in many applications, such as flexible manufacturing systems, is introduced in the paper. The paradigm merges two powerful concepts, a formal GALS language SystemJ suitable for designing concurrent static programs and service oriented architectures suitable for dynamic system composition. The new tool, called SOSJ, designed based on the proposed paradigm has the strengths from both sides and can support programming adaptive distributed systems. The use of the new design tool and methodology is illustrated on an example of a distributed manufacturing system. It demonstrates usability and ease of design with SOSJ in developing flexible, dynamic and faulttolerant manufacturing systems.