A sensitivity-based commonality strategy for family products of mild variation, with application to automotive body structures

9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Fellini, Ryan ^a   Kokkolaras, Michael ^a   Michelena, Nestor ^a   Papalambros, Panos ^a   Saitou, Kazuhiro ^a   Perez Duarte, Alexis ^a   Fenyesk, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOTIVE BODY STRUCTURES; DESIGN CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PRODUCT FAMILIES; PRODUCT PLATFORMS; PRODUCT VARIANTS; PRODUCT VARIETY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 85088760799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-5610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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