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Modelling concept design evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Graham Green
Graham Green
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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Abstract

This paper describes the development of models to simulate the process of Concept Design Evaluation. The models are an amalgam of a number of statistically based methods and approaches taken from the probability, reliability, and quality domains. They assume that designers use decomposition of design to undertake evaluation at design characteristic level with the total design evaluation being achieved, in some way, via recomposition. The models described in this paper attempt to describe how designers may perform recomposition and hence total design evaluation. It is argued that the ability to model this human activity is important for the future development of knowledge-based design tools.

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Design EvaluationConcept DesignKnowledge-based Design ToolsStatistical Methods

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AI EDAM , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , June 1997 , pp. 211 - 217
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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