Decomposition-based assembly synthesis for maximum structural strength and modularity

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1043-1051

  Cetin, Onur L ^a   Saitou, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Design for assembly; Discrete design optimization; Genetic algorithms; Modularity; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECOMPOSITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

DISCRETE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; MODULARITY; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE; GRAPH PARTITIONING PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL DECOMPOSITION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; STEADY-STATE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMATIC DECOMPOSITION;

PRODUCT DESIGN; ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0012932535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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