An approach to functional synthesis of mechanical design concepts: Theory, applications, and emerging research issues

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-331

  Chakrabarti, Amaresh ^a   Bligh, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual Design; Functional Modelling; Functional Reasoning; Functional Synthesis; Mechanical Design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MODELLING; FUNCTIONAL REASONING; FUNCTIONAL SYNTHESIS; MECHANICAL DESIGN;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 0030245990     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0890060400001645     Document Type: Article

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