Supporting negotiations in the early stage of large-scale mechanical system design

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1056-1067

  Ge, Ping ^a   Lu, Stephen C Y ^b   Bukkapatnam, Satish T S ^b  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DIRECT SYNTHESIS (DS) METHOD; LARGE SCALE MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; VEHICLE FRONTAL STRUCTURAL SYSTEM;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 28244458029     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1862675     Document Type: Article

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