A scheme for functional reasoning in conceptual design

Design Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 493-517

  Chakrabarti, Amaresh ^a   Bligh, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Engineering design; Functional reasoning; Innovative design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AIDS; FUNCTIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

FUNCTION STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONAL REASONING MODELS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0035501811     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-694X(01)00008-4     Document Type: Article

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