A computational approach to conceptual design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 15-25

  Strawbridge, Zeke ^a   McAdams, Daniel A ^b   Stone, Robert B ^b  

^a CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

^b Missouri University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational design tools; Conceptual design; Functional modeling; Morphological analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DESIGN AIDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCT DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TOOLS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN STAGES; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; MATRIX MANIPULATION; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL MATRIXES; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONCEPT SELECTION; CUSTOMER NEED; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN RESEARCH; DETAIL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MODELING; MATRIX;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 0036979823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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