Engineering Design Synthesis
Subtitle: Understanding, Approaches and Tools
By: edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781849968768; 9781447137177
Subjects: Engineering; Computer simulation; Engineering design
Description: This book brings together some of the most influential pieces of research undertaken around the world in design synthesis. It is the first comprehensive work of this kind and covers all three aspects of research in design synthesis: - understanding what constitutes and influences synthesis; - the major approaches to synthesis; - the diverse range of tools that are created to support this crucial design task. The chapters are comprised of cutting edge research and established methods, written by the originators of this growing field of research. They cover all major generic synthesis approaches i.e., composition, retrieval, change and repair, and tackle problems that come from a wide variety of domains within architecture and engineering as well as areas of application including clocks, sensors and medical devices. The book contains an editorial introduction to the chapters and the broader context of research they represent. With its range of tools and methods covered, it is an ideal introduction to design synthesis for those intending to research in this area as well as being a valuable source of ideas for educators and practitioners of engineering design.
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Table of contents: title: Defining Synthesis; title: Insight, Design Principles and Systematic Invention; title: Synthesis and Theory of Knowledge; title: Theory of Technical Systems and Engineering Design Synthesis; title: A Knowledge Operation Model of Synthesis; title: Two Approaches to Synthesis Based on the Domain Theory; title: Using the Concept of Functions to Help Synthesis Solutions; title: Design Catalogues and Their Usage; title: TRIZ, the Altshullerian Approach to Solving Innovation Problems; title: Synthesis of Schematic Descriptions in Mechanical Design; title: An Approach to Compositional Synthesis of Mechanical Design Concepts Using Computers; title: Synthesis Based on Function-Means Trees: Schemebuilder; title: Design Processes and Context for the Support of Design Synthesis; title: Retrieval Using Configuration Spaces; title: Creative Design By Analogy; title: Design Patterns and Creative Design; title: FAMING: Supporting Innovative Design Using Adaptation; title: Transforming Behavioural and Physical Representations of Mechanical Designs; title: Automatic Synthesis of Both the Topology and Numerical Parameters for Complex Structures Using Genetic Programming.