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Design tool
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TL;DR: The House of Quality (HoQ) as discussed by the authors is a popular design tool that supports information processing and decision-making in the engineering design process, however, its use as a quantitative information tool in engineering design is potentially flawed.
Abstract: Purpose – The House of Quality (HoQ) is a popular design tool that supports information processing and decision making in the engineering design process. While its application is an aid to conceptual aspects of the design process, its use as a quantitative information tool in engineering design is potentially flawed. This flaw is a result of potential designer interpretation of the HoQ results – interpretation which is invalid given the assumptions and information sources behind the HoQ – and is viewed as a critical limitation on the results of the method which can lead to potentially invalid and/or poor decisions. In this paper this limitation and its implications are explored both experimentally and through simulated application.Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken in this research is to first study the HoQ through a “digital experiment” in order to identify the key factors that drive the quantitative results within the tool. Based on the results of the experiment, an example HoQ for a hair ...
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23 Mar 2006TL;DR: In this paper, a page design tool enables a user to assign conditions to the exposed properties and characteristics of the image, as well as map available data sources to the image properties in order to dynamically control image properties during display.
Abstract: A mechanism is disclosed for providing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images, Tree and Tab as drag and drop objects. A page design tool receives an indication that a user wishes to place a metadata-defined image onto a page design canvas. The page design tool further receives an association of metadata defining the image, and in response, parses through the metadata to identify properties and characteristics of the metadata-defined image to expose to a user through a graphical user-interface of the page design tool. The page design tool enables a user to assign conditions to the exposed properties and characteristics of the image, as well as map available data sources to the properties and characteristics in order to dynamically control image properties during display. Hence, the page design tool presents graphical user interface tools for simply incorporating otherwise complex objects into page designs.
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TL;DR: This paper will describe the proposed compliant mechanism design process and will demonstrate the procedure on several examples common in the literature, to create an automated design tool from task definition to functional prototype created on a CNC or rapid-prototype machine.
Abstract: The field of distributed-compliance mechanisms has seen significant work in developing suitable topology optimization tools for their design. These optimal design tools have grown out of the techniques of structural optimization. This paper will build on the previous work in topology optimization and compliant mechanism design by proposing an alternative design space parameterization through control points and adding another step to the process, that of subdivision. The control points assist a specific design to be represented as a solid model during the optimization process. The process of subdivision creates an additional number of control points that help smooth the surface (for example a C2 continuous surface depending on the method of subdivision chosen) creating a manufacturable design free of traditional numerical instabilities. Note that these additional control points do not add to the number of design parameters. This alternative parameterization and description as a solid model effectively and completely separates the design variables from the analysis variables during the optimization procedure. The motivation behind this work is to avoid several of the numerical instabilities that occur in topology optimization and to create an automated design tool from task definition to functional prototype created on a CNC or rapid-prototype machine. This paper will describe the complaint mechanism design process including subdivision and will demonstrate the procedure on several common examples.Copyright © 2004 by ASME
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TL;DR: Techniques for automating significant portions of the labor have been incorporated in a program to provide an effective data base design tool (Data Base Design Aid) in current use.
Abstract: This paper describes the design effort for an integrated data base and then develops techniques for automating significant portions of the labor. These techniques have been incorporated in a program to provide an effective data base design tool (Data Base Design Aid) in current use. The processes involved with this aid are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a discussion of the choice of stress and strain measures used in this large deformation context, and the simulation of the compaction of an industrial PM part, intended to illustrate the usefulness of the simulation approach in the task of improving the design of PM part and process.
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