Different notions of function: Results from an experiment on the analysis of an existing product

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 22, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 811-837

  Eckert, Claudia ^a   Alink, Thomas ^b   Ruckpaul, Anne ^b   Albers, Albert ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

behaviour; design experiment; function

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR; DESIGN ENGINEERS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; HYDRAULIC PUMP; KEY PARTS; SYNTACTIC NOTION;

DESIGN; ENGINEERS; FUNCTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84858858763     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2011.603297     Document Type: Article

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