Constraint management methodology for conceptual design tradeoff studies

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Reddy, Sudhakar Y ^a   Fertig, Kenneth W ^a   Smith, David E ^a  

^a Rockwell International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INFRARED IMAGING;

COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT; CONSTRAINT NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE AND COST MODELS; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 85020732723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/96-DETC/DTM-1499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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