Towards biomimetic concept generation

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 327-335

  Vakili, V ^a   Shu, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogy; Biomimicry; Function; Remanufacture

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMIMETIC CONCEPT GENERATION; BIOMIMICRY; ENGINEERING DESIGN; REMANUFACTURE;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMIMETIC DESIGN; CONCEPT GENERATION; DESIGN FOR REMANUFACTURE; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE LEVELS;

EID: 0035791507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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