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Showing 1 to 20 of 611 for “"Design Optimization"”.
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Collaboration in design optimization
Tacit is a software tool for designing and solving 2D truss structures. The Tacit web application expands these features to allow users to design truss structures with integrated analysis and optimization tools. Tacit was intended for single user inter- action, but much of engineering and design …
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Design optimization of rotating bodies
The presented work focuses on design optimization problems for a general class of rotating bodies with different kinds of support. The rotation of rigid bodies causes vibrations which can lead to undesired noise and to a damage of the rotor. Therefore, the target of the optimization is to change …
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Integrated transportation system design optimization
Traditionally, the design of a transportation system has focused on either the vehicle design or the network flow, assuming the other as given. However, to define a system level architecture for a transportation system, it is advantageous to expand the system boundary during the design process to …
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Design optimization of planar mechanisms
The purpose of this thesis is to create an optimization computer program capable of solving a variety of mechanism design problems. A general purpose computer program has been developed for design optimization. This program utilizes the sequential unconstrained minimization technique in which the …
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Fighter Aircraft Synthesis/Design Optimization
… of the application of energy-based large-scale optimization of a two-subsystem (propulsion subsystem (PS) and airframe subsystem-aerodynamics (AFS-A)) air-to-air fighter (AAF) with two types of AFS-A models: a fixed-wing AFS-A and a morphing-wing AFS-A. The AAF flies 19 mission segments of a …
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Ship Design Optimization Using Asset
This thesis describes the design optimization of two different types of vessels. They are LHA(R), a replacement for the US Navy amphibious assault ship and DDG51, a destroyer class vessel. The overall measure of effectiveness (OMOE) and the lead ship acquisition cost (LCA) are considered to be the …
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Integrated aerodynamic-structural design optimization
… structures is having a profound effect on the design process. These materials permit the designer to tailor material properties to improve structural and aerodynamic performance. In order to obtain maximum benefits, a more integrated multidisciplinary design process is required. Furthermore, …
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Design optimization of permanent magnet actuators.
This study describes the design optimization of permanent actuators, of both rotary and linear topologies. Parameter scanning, constrained single and multi-criterion optimization techniques are developed, with due emphasis on the efficient determination of optimal designs. The modelling of devices …
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Instrument Design Optimization with Computational Methods
… LH2 target in the world and the first to be designed with CFD at Jefferson Lab. The first complete magnetic field simulation of the Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) is presented with a focus on primary electron beam deflection downstream of the target. The SHMS consists of a …
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Design optimization of heterogeneous microstructured materials
… The objective of this research is to establish a design optimization methodology for microstructured materials. The material design problem is stated as finding the optimum microstructure to maximize the desired performance satisfying material processing constrains. This problem has been solved in …
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Financial analysis in multidisciplinary design optimization
… across multiple disciplines and find the ideal design which maximizes benefit to the company and society. Given the complexity of working with multiple disciplines and stakeholders, it is important to have a single metric which teams and organizations can use to choose the best design. Since …
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Design optimization of oxygenated fluid pump
… oxygenated fluid created by the doctor. The pump design uses a bellows with force feedback calibration to pump 1 liter of fluid over 5 minutes and mix the concentrated 90% form with saline without degradation to form a 70% concentrated form with the viscosity similar to that of blood. My part in …
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Design optimization of cable-stayed bridges
… the advantages, the limitations and the basic design concepts of these indeterminate systems. During this project, the design of typical cable-stayed bridges is optimized with computer-based simulation capabilities contained within the SAP2000 computer software system. The analysis strategy …
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Design Optimization of Fuzzy Logic Systems
… it is often necessary to undertake a design optimization process in which the adjustable parameters defining a particular fuzzy system are tuned to maximize a given performance criterion. Some data to approximate are commonly available and yield what is called the supervised learning …
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Integrated aerodynamic-structural wing design optimization
… for the simultaneous aerodynamic-structural design optimization of aircraft wings are investigated. These procedures include efficient methods for optimization and sensitivity calculations that are applied to two specific design examples. The first is a subsonic transport aircraft with a …
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Design optimization using CAD parameterization through CAPRI
Design optimization is one of the many areas of Computational Engineering that is directly applicable to almost any engineering endeavor. The design cycle is a multi-step process, beginning with a Computer Aided Design (CAD) model and ending with an optimized version of that model relative to some …
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Aerodynamic design optimization using flow feature parameterization
Design optimization methods using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations are becoming increasingly popular in the area of aerodynamic design, sustaining the desire to make these methods more computationally efficient. Such design strategies typically define the aerodynamic product …
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Component-based design optimization of multirotor aircraft
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Bulbous bow design optimization for fast ships
Thesis (Nav. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1996.
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