The term kinematic structure encompasses all those characteristics of mechanisms which
are determined solely by the pattern of interconnection among the constituent links of the …

Conceptual design is an early stage in the design process that involves the generation of
solution concepts to satisfy the functional requirements of a design problem. Usually, there …

Conceptual design is an early phase in the design process, which involves the generation of
solution concepts to satisfy the functional requirements of a design problem. There can be …

Although many ingenious mechanisms have been designed, the fundamental task of
conceptualizing these devices is, to a great extent, still an art. While sophisticated …

Product concept generation and evaluation are two major activities for obtaining an optimal
concept in conceptual design. In this paper, an integrated computational intelligence …

Automation of the mechanical design process has attracted much attention over the last
decade. This paper reports a method of computational synthesis of the conceptual design of …

This paper introduces a new approach to the conceptual design of mechanical systems from
qualitative specifications of behavior. The power of the approach stems from the integration …

This paper presents a number of systematically designed compliant topologies and
discusses how the intrinsic kinematic behavior can be extracted from them. This is then …

Pd8Ni92 (111) and (110) surfaces have been investigated using X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy and low energy ion scattering. As expected, a high rate of Pd segregation is …

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D-printing, sits at the heart of the Maker Movement—the
growing desire for wider-ranges of people to design physical objects. However, most users …