... mechanical contact minimisation vibrations Contact-aided compliant mechanisms (CCMs), first introduced by Mankame and Ananthasuresh [( 1 ), 2 ], aim at achieving a prescribed complex kinematic task by allowing some or several of its members to come in contact. The synthesis method therein...

... integer programming minimisation search problems 15 06 2010 24 06 2011 22 08 2011 22 08 2011 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... with nonlinear finite element analysis and experimental force-displacement data. 26 01 2011 28 03 2011 21 06 2011 21 06 2011 compliant mechanisms finite element analysis minimisation shear modulus Compliant mechanism pseudo-rigid-body model underconstrained underactuated...

... an ambiguous weight-based method. (2) Optimum threshold design: Given a designer-specified joint probability, find a set of thresholds that satisfy the joint probability specification while allowing for a specification of preferences among the objectives. decision theory design engineering minimisation...

... drives finite element analysis minimisation mirrors springs (mechanical) torsion design optimization computer-aided design spring design Properties and dimensional constraints Spring material 1095 steel Spring shape Rectangular Torsional mode First torsional...

... in the MMOS based topology design algorithms. 15 03 2010 01 11 2010 29 12 2010 29 12 2010 beams (structures) design engineering elasticity iterative methods masks minimisation photolithography topology A fundamental objective of a single-piece and single material...

... computerised numerical control gears geometry machine tools machinery production industries machining minimisation face-hobbing tooth surface errors correction spiral bevel and hypoid gears universal motion concept UMC Generalized theory and application of bevel and cylindrical gears...

.... 10 09 2008 03 07 2009 03 09 2009 design engineering elasticity finite element analysis genetic algorithms least squares approximations minimisation supports When a finite element model reduction has to be performed, any of the following methods can be used, depending...

... adaptive control genetic algorithms intelligent structures minimisation Pareto optimisation piezoelectric actuators plates (structures) shape control A recent technology that has been receiving much attention is that of the adaptive smart structures. These are structural systems whose shape...

... are often bidirectional, which is in other words coupled, in a complex project. design process multiproject environment dynamic sequencing DSM stochastic processing network design engineering iterative methods minimisation project management 2009 American Society of Mechanical...

... : 125.9233 deg , C–N–H: 123.5155 deg , C–N–C(A): 121.5756 deg , C(A)–N–H: 114.901 deg peptide bond torsion angle: ω : 179.4432 deg . 20 06 2006 28 11 2006 biology computing bond angles bond lengths minimisation molecular biophysics molecular configurations physiological models...

... design engineering minimisation automatic mechanism synthesis spring-connected block model planar linkage Mechanism synthesis has been an interesting research subject in the kinematics community. Among others, graphical and analytical techniques have been perhaps most popular (see, e.g...

.... 09 03 2005 27 11 2005 gears design engineering boundary-elements methods photoelasticity minimisation spur gears root stress BEM optimization complex algorithm photoelasticity The advances in the field of computational mechanics and structural optimization have...

... modifications of the Nelder and Mead algorithm. They concluded that adding a degeneracy constraint improves the performance of the algorithm. genetic algorithms minimisation fuzzy logic design engineering 07 January 2003 16 March 2004 14 02 2005 Contributed by the Design...

... S. K. , and Fabien B. C. , 1999 , “ Optimization of Dynamic Systems ,” Kluwer Academic Publishers , Dordrecht. aerospace robotics aerodynamics design engineering microrobots bars minimisation In the last five years, funded by programs from DARPA and other DoD agencies...

... industrial economics cost reduction genetic algorithms mechanical products automotive components design engineering economies of scale minimisation Assembly Synthesis Design for Modularity Multiobjective Optimization Mechanical products are very rarely monolithic; one of the reasons...

..., and it may be difficult to find a global minimum with a little number of sampling points. design engineering minimisation structural engineering 30 05 2003 15 07 2004 Initial point x 0 in feasible design domain. Initial step size T...

.... Renaud. 01 July 2001 01 October 2002 04 09 2003 product development automobile industry computer aided engineering CAD minimisation geometric programming Much of the motivation for the work described in this article comes from recent efforts in the automotive...

... with the manufacture of gears and splines, many other forms can be cut. Due to its versatility, hobbing is also recognized as an economical means of producing ratchets, sprockets, and other special forms. machining minimisation kinematics geometry 01 November 2001 26 11 2002 Contributed...