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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Design Prototypes"”.
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Interactive embankment: topography of fluctuating water levels and human interaction
… types in order to address better riverbank design treatments for fluctuating water levels. It starts by investigating speculative and un-built edge conditions found in architectural and landscape renderings. Existing and speculative (un-built but visualized) interactive embankment types will …
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Case-Based Multiattribute Structural Design and Optimization
Since engineering design usually involves a lot of trade-off and decision making, it is a complicated and time consuming process. To augment engineer's creativity, a case-based multiattribute structural design and optimization methodology is developed in this study. This new methodology is aimed to …
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Design and development of an epidural needle puncture and retraction device
… flexure-based solution was made and utilized in designing a new epidural device which may reduce the risk of over-puncture. A clinical background of epidurals is presented, along with the usable model and new design. Prototypes were manufactured and tested to validate the model and fabrication …
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Inhabiting the interstitial: design experiments in aviary architecture and habitat creation
… Although conventional approaches to the habitat design in cities emphasize the role of natural areas, parks and green roofs as the primary habitat, between these spaces is an interstitial space that may help to connect habitats and form intimate, visible, and thoughtful, human-bird relationships. …
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Prototyping for user feedback : how visual detail can influence feature preference
User-centered design focuses on insights drawn from users to drive product development. Provisional design prototypes are often used as a tool for collecting feedback from users that can then be incorporated into future design iterations. However, experience from design practice suggests that user …
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Environmental Graphic DesignChanging the Perceptions of Divided Communitiesthrough Cultural and Social Connectivity
… is an opportunity to use environmental graphic design elements to help improve the perceptions of a divided neighborhood and reconnect it back to the greater city population.This project explores the value that environmental graphic design elements can create to help promote and improve the …
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Concept development for lightweight binary-actuated robotic devices, with application to space systems
… a wide variety of objectives. Conventional designs using gears, motors, bearings, encoders, and many discrete components will be too complex, heavy, and failure-prone to allow highly-reconfigurable systems to be feasible. This thesis develops new concepts that may potentially enable the …
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From Scar To Scaffold: The Afterlife of the Oil Pipeline for a Decarbonizing World
… and alternative energy distribution—where design, much like a biological scaffold, acts as a catalyst for regeneration along landscapes shaped by extraction. Through spatial analysis, typological classification, and mapping, five territorial conditions are defined along the pipeline loop, …
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The design of disability products with special reference to the user: case study: domestic seating for young adults with arthritis
… on disability-related products; approaches to design; a contemporary perspective of disability; arthritis; seating and seating recommendations. Primary research involved surveys of the seating that younger people with arthritis have, need and desire; furniture designed working with product …
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Seismic stability of buckling-restrained braced frames
… are based on elastic stability, current code design provisions do not address seismic stability rigorously and do not consider the particular inelastic response of a system. As can occur in multistory structures, even for ductile systems, BRBFs tend to develop drift concentration that is …
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Desarrollo de un prototipo de aplicación móvil para promover la salud mental y el bienestar social en la comunidad de la universidad Ean, a través del análisis de la dependencia de los dispositivos tecnológicos
El presente proyecto se centra en la elaboración de un modelo de aplicación móvil que busca satisfacer la demanda social de conectividad entre personas, especialmente en la organización de eventos y búsqueda de compañeros para llevar a cabo actividades en conjunto. Se ha observado una falta de …