Designing a family of reconfigurable vehicles using multilevel multidisciplinary design optimization

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-186

  Ferguson, Scott ^a   Kasprzak, Edward ^c   Lewis, Kemper ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c Milliken Research Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel optimization; Product family design; Reconfigurable systems; Vehicle Design

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABLE DESIGN; BASELINE VEHICLE; COMMON ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN VARIABLES; ENHANCED PERFORMANCE; MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; MULTILEVEL OPTIMIZATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; VEHICLE DESIGN;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VEHICLES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 67650264008     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0319-3     Document Type: Article

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