On the role of evolutionary optimization within the System-by-Design approach for EM device synthesis

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Massa ◽  
Paolo Rocca ◽  
Giacomo Oliveri
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Optimization ◽  
Design Approach

The role of gas flow distributions on CO2 mineralization within monolithic cemented composites: coupled CFD-factorial design approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Mehdipour ◽  
Gabriel Falzone ◽  
Dale Prentice ◽  
Narayanan Neithalath ◽  
Dante Simonetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Factorial Design ◽  
Material Properties ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Processing Conditions ◽  
Gas Processing ◽  
Co2 Mineralization

Optimizing the spatial distribution of contacting gas and the gas processing conditions enhances CO2 mineralization reactions and material properties of carbonate-cementitious monoliths.

scholarly journals Design as an agent of change: Practice-oriented initiatives on Design Teaching

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najla Mouchrek ◽  
Lia Krucken
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
Agent Of Change

The paper analyzes the role of Design as an agent of social transformation in face of complex challenges. Intentionally embracing reality’s complexity and centering on human values, the Design approach is suited to develop alternative perspectives and radically different strategies for change. The paper explores Design teaching focusing on social change and transition to sustainability, presenting three initiatives and reflecting about methods and impacts of the application of Design for transition. The analysis points to the need of a critical vision in Design research and teaching and the importance to systematize and teach methods and tools to support the interplay among diverse social actors.

scholarly journals Fibrillar adhesion with no clusterisation: Functional significance of material gradient along adhesive setae of insects

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 837-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav N Gorb ◽  
Alexander E Filippov
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Experiment ◽  
Material Properties ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Functional Significance ◽  
Rough Surfaces ◽  
Adhesive System ◽  
Evolutionary Optimization ◽  
Fibrillar Adhesion

It has been recently demonstrated that adhesive tarsal setae of beetles possess material gradients along their length. These gradients presumably represent an evolutionary optimization enhancing the adaptation to rough surfaces while simultaneously preventing clusterisation of the setae by lateral collapse. The numerical experiment of the present study has clearly demonstrated that gradient-bearing fibers with short soft tips and stiff bases have greater advantage in maximizing adhesion and minimizing clusterisation in multiple attachment–detachment cycles, if compared to the fibers with longer soft tips on the stiff bases and fibers with stiff tips on the soft bases. This study not only manifests the crucial role of gradients in material properties along the setae in beetle fibrillar adhesive system, but predicts that similar gradients must have been convergently evolved in various lineages of arthropods.

scholarly journals From Representation to Infrastructure: The Case for Design Advocacy through Drawing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Aramouny ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Teaching Design

When teaching design and architecture in oscillation between practice and academia, we are inescapably bound by questions of context; our environment reflects greatly on us and our perception and forms the basis of our design approach and rhetoric. In teaching, we attempt to engage students in reflecting on, observing and rethinking their contexts. We push them to reflect on new potentials, to re-imagine what is usually widely established. We allow them to create opportunities for new perspectives, and to ponder upon the potential of “other” possibilities that may exist. In Lebanon, a country with end-less problems and infrastructural deterioration, such questioning is unavoidable and becomes crucial to pursue at an academic level, where reality and practice fail to proceed. The academic endeavor takes on the role of the provocateur, the advocator for change, projecting forward with a new imaginary. On the other hand, drawing, architecture’s most powerful medium, has resurged today as an essential thinking tool, able to convey ideas and suggest aspirations. Its role has progressed beyond the limits of representation, becoming fundamental for reflection, conceptualization and advocacy. Its power lies in its recurrent ability to convey meaning visually, which is universally understood.My teaching trajectories try to bring these two together: Drawing and reimagining context. This is especially distilled in a seminar course I teach at the American University of Beirut, titled “Micro/ Macro Infrastructures” that builds upon the potential of architecture representation with speculative proposals for local infrastructural systems, presented through the medium of a pamphlet and articulated to advocate for change through design.

scholarly journals Visitors Experiences in Different Zoo Exhibits

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serap Yılmaz ◽  
Tuğba Düzenli ◽  
Abdullah Çiğdem
Keyword(s):  
Design Approach ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Wild Life

Zoos help people to learn through exhibiting the relationships of animals in nature. Therefore, they have the important missions of education and protection of wild life. Most of these missions are achieved through visitors' experiences in exhibit areas. Therefore, it is important to understand visitors' experiences in the zoo and know the reasons that affect these experiences. Animals should exhibit normal behaviors actively to enable visitors to have positive experiences during their visits. For this reason, the design of exhibit areas is significant. The purpose of this study is to determine the visitors' perceptual descriptions in the zoos including different exhibit areas and their reasons to visit them. Thus, the role of the zoos in enabling visitors to learn nature protection and have environmental consciousness is explored correlating with zoo typologies. In this study, three zoos in different typologies in Turkey have been examined and it is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the typologies of the zoos have been identified. In the second stage, a questionnaire has been conducted to find out the visitors' visiting aims, the extent they reached these aims, their level of appreciation and their perceptions on exhibit areas. The questionnaire has been performed with 450 zoo visitors, and there have been 150 visitors from each zoo. According to the results of this study, it has been explored that visitors visit the zoos mostly for "education" without considering the design approach. However, it has been found out that the design of exhibit areas affects visitors' level of appreciation and their zoo descriptions. It has been identified that as the level of appreciation increases, the level of reaching aims increases.

scholarly journals Stage of Takeoff Based on Rostow's Theory for the Role of Manufacture of Non-metals, Except Petroleum and Coal Manufacture to the Economic Increase

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Iskandar Muda ◽  
Nurlina ◽  
Erlina ◽  
Tengku Erry Nuradi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Data Pooling ◽  
Section Model ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Statistics ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to know the effect of Manufacture of Non Metalic, Except Petroleum & Coal and Manufacture of Basic Metals to the Economic Growth based on Stage of Takeoff on Rostow's Theory. Type of research is Causal Design approach. Type of data is secondary data from Government Statistics Agency Republic of Indonesia period in years 2000 until 2015. The method of analysis used Smart PLS software. The Findings of this research are Manufacture of Non Metalic, Except Petroleum & Coal and Manufacture of Basic Metals variables influence to the Economic Increase. The Impact of this study is not analyzed with the approach of data pooling and cross section model so that the coefficients of each equation can be known each year so it can be known which has a big influence on Economic Increase. This research has implications for the government to provide facilities and facilities to investors who want to enter in the field of Manufacture of Non-Metalic, Except Petroleum & Coal and Manufacture of Basic Metals.The value of this research has a good value because it is measurement from 2000 until 2015 periods.

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