Intelligent FEA-based design improvement

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1239-1254

  Novak, Marina ^a   Dolšak, Bojan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Decision support; Design modification; Finite element analysis; Knowledge based systems; Prolog; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS PROCESSES; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGNS; CRITICAL AREAS; DECISION SUPPORT; DESIGN CHANGES; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; DESIGN MODIFICATION; DESIGN PROCESSES; DESIGN STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSES; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; INTELLIGENT; POST-PROCESSING; PROLOG; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 54049094408     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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