Pushing the limits of vehicle design: Utilizing a parametric shape grammar to explore cross-over vehicle concepts

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Orsborn, Seth ^a   Pawlicki, Richard ^b   Cagan, Jonathan ^a   Smith, Randall C ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CROSS-OVER VEHICLES; FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; PARAMETRIC SHAPE GRAMMARS;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

EID: 33751344157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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