Conceptual design seeks to deliver design concepts that implement desired functions.
Function and behavior are two dominant terms used in the research of this design phase …

Over the last two decades, consumers have become increasingly aware and desiring of
sustainable products. However, little attention has been paid to developing conceptual …

Numerous design methods exist but models and tools used by these design methods do not
realize a complete coherence between customers' needs, professionals' needs and …

Many buildings around the world are extremely vulnerable to serious and moderate
earthquakes. Base isolation and energy dissipators are the traditional techniques in anti …

The importance of materials selection in engineering design is well recognised. There are
already plenty of formalised methods to support selection of individual materials, where the …

Featured Application This study illustrates a reasoned design process that conceptually
defines a project of a test rig on the basis of the tests that it must be able to perform when in …

Featured Application This study describes the possible outputs of a novel test rig having an
inclinable and rotating turntable, illustrating in detail the physical laws governing the …

摘要根据机械产品概念设计的特点归纳总结了概念设计过程中普遍存在于功能行为和载体之间
的七种基本映射单元类型通过建立不同基本映射单元类型之间的逻辑联系构造了多层次混合 …

The systematic representation of design concepts is an important requirement for
computational support during the conceptual design stage within the process of product …

Conceptual design aims at developing design concepts that can satisfy the specified design
requirements, where the design concepts are normally in the form of a physical structure …