Procedure for the design of complex mechanical systems by decomposition

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-224

  Khorshid, E ^a   Seireg, A ^b,c  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

DECOMPOSITION BASED DESIGNS; INFEASIBILITY DETECTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0032655703     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijcat.1999.000206     Document Type: Article

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