A qualitative and heuristic approach to the conceptual design of mechanisms

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-32

  Li, Chung Lun ^a   Tan, S T ^b   Chan, K W ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automatic design; Computer aided design; Conceptual design; Design automation; Design synthesis; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DESIGN AUTOMATION; DESIGN SYNTHESIS; MECHANISM DESIGN;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030082147     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0952-1976(95)00060-7     Document Type: Article

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