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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Concept design"”.
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Concept design for a folding bicycle helmet
… Bicycle Helmet for Commuters"" chronicles the designer’s industrial design research and concept development effort for fulfilling some requirements of Master Degree of Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A research and design development effort has created a new …
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Naval ship concept design : an evolutionary approach
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1998.
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Manning Analysis in Naval Ship Concept Design
… is largely influenced by decisions made during concept design. In recent years the US Navy has undertaken numerous initiatives to reduce total ownership cost. This has prompted particular interest in reducing manning, as this is the largest single expenditure in total ownership cost. Normally …
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Surfacing Rescue Container concept design for trident submarines
… SRCs have been employed in several submarine designs over the last four decades, the United States has never adopted the underlying strategy. This paper recognizes the SRC concept as the most reliable means of rescue, and proposes a modular SRC concept design (LSRC) which utilizes a modified …
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Applying set based methodology in submarine concept design
Early stage ship design decisions continue to be a challenge for naval architects and engineers. The complex interactions between the different elements of the ship and the broad spectrum of disciplines required in ship design make it difficult to fully realize the effects and limitations early …
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Exploration of System Vulnerability in Naval Ship Concept Design
… modeling approach during the naval ship concept design process within the Concept and Requirements Exploration (CandRE) process used at Virginia Tech. The CandRE is based on a Multi-Objective Generic Optimization (MOGO) approach that explores a design space to produce a non-dominated set …
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A smart diaper wetness detection sensor : concept, design and ethical considerations
Human waste contained in diapers is a rich source of medical health based data. Embedding low-cost, wearable sensors in disposable diapers provides an opportunity for self-health monitoring and advancing preventative medicine. Diaper users include infants, elderly, disabled individuals, and …
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Architecture Flow Optimization - Refinement and Application for Naval Ship Concept Design
… Optimization (AFO) tool for naval surface ship design, specifically focusing on the development of new network and matrix-based methods for AFO formulation and their application in Concept Development. The AFO tool analyzes and optimizes the flow of energy through the ship's Vital Components …
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Increased confidence in concept design through trade space exploration and multiobjective optimization
… requires paying greater attention to the initial design of the system concept. To improve the process by which concept design is carried out, this thesis develops an Engineering Framework for Concept Development. The Engineering Framework is applicable to a diverse range of concept design …
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Chains of function delivery : a role for product architecture in concept design
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Pathways of the creative journey - The significance of a cruise ship concept design
… examines the initial stage of a cruise ship design process and those key success factors that have an impact and are estimated to improve the process, contributing the success of the concept. The aim of this work is to improve the consistency and efficiency of the concept design process by …
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A Biologically Inspired Soft-Bodied Bellows-Driven Stomach Robot: Concept, Design and Validation
… stomach simulator. This work presents the concept, design, and experimental validation of a stomach robot, modelled from abstracted medical images and constructed from soft materials. An actuation concept is introduced to provide contractions in the robot. The analysis of conventional …
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Concept engineering : an investigation of time vs. market orientation in product concept design
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Concept design of a long range AUV propulsion system with an onboard electrical generator
… into in a clean sheet propulsion system design of a long range AUV propulsion system. Maximum efficiency of all components was stressed at every point in the design process in order to decrease the propulsion system power requirements. Advanced lithium-ion battery systems were also …
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Bridging the Gap: Designing Accessible Industrial Robotics UIs for Non-Technical Users with Concept Design
… In this thesis, I outline my approach to redesigning the startup’s prototype UI inspired by Concept Design, a methodology formalized by MIT professor Daniel Jackson. By clarifying the core concepts of the startup’s application, the presentation became clearer and the robotics company was …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
Design fixation is a phenomenon experienced by professional designers and engineering design students that stifles creativity and innovation through discouraging ideational productivity, fluency and diversity. During the design idea and concept generation phase of the design process, a reliance on …
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The Development of Integrated Reporting and Concept Design for a Holistic Implementation: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Degree of Integrated Reporting in South Africa and Germany
… seen as an advancement of prevailing reporting concepts and is regarded as a holistic approach to interdisciplinary and integrated corporate management. The still relatively young research in Integrated Reporting is mainly reflected in analysing normative or conceptual issues on Integrated …
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