TY - GEN
T1 - Initial design strategies for iterative design
AU - Ramachandran, Natarajan
AU - Langrana, Noshir A.
AU - Steinberg, Louis
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctoral dissertation. We would like to thank Prof. Y. Jaluria and Dr. T. Kwon for numerous discussions and comments during the CAD group meetings. We would also like to thank Mark Orelup and Professor Jack Dixon from the University of Massachussetts for providing us with the analysis code for v-belt design. This work was supported by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology and the CAIP centers' Industrial members, and by NSF under grant number DMC-8610507, and by DARPA under contract numbers N00014-81-K-0394 and N00014-85-K-0116.
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© 1990 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - This paper discusses methods to retrieve design(s) from a design library in order to achieve a better initial starting point for the iterative model of the design process. The motivation for doing this is to reduce the extensive analysis time required for many iterative design problems. Starting a design at a favorable initial point should help reduce the number of iterations. Four initial design methods have been investigated varying from a simple non-library method to methods that use designs from a library. To evaluate the effectiveness of these methods, the initial design methods were tested on four example problems. They are, a cantilever beam, a gear-pair, av-belt and an extruder-die. It was found that the number of iterations reduced approximately as 1/n, where n is the number of stored values in the design library.
AB - This paper discusses methods to retrieve design(s) from a design library in order to achieve a better initial starting point for the iterative model of the design process. The motivation for doing this is to reduce the extensive analysis time required for many iterative design problems. Starting a design at a favorable initial point should help reduce the number of iterations. Four initial design methods have been investigated varying from a simple non-library method to methods that use designs from a library. To evaluate the effectiveness of these methods, the initial design methods were tested on four example problems. They are, a cantilever beam, a gear-pair, av-belt and an extruder-die. It was found that the number of iterations reduced approximately as 1/n, where n is the number of stored values in the design library.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC1990-0141
DO - 10.1115/DETC1990-0141
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104845698
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
SP - 315
EP - 322
BT - 2nd International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1990 Design Technical Conferences, DETC 1990
Y2 - 16 September 1990 through 19 September 1990
ER -