Technical functions: Towards accepting different engineering meanings with one overall account

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 183-194

  Vermaas, Pieter E ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design methodologies; Device descriptions; Different concepts of function; Function; Functional modelling; Simplified device descriptions

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DEVICE DESCRIPTION; ENGINEERING REASONING; FUNCTIONAL MODELLING; TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 79960477746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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