An I-Ching-TRIZ-Inspired Approach to Design Concept Generation

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duc Truong Pham ◽  
Huimin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Design Concept ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
I Ching ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Aircraft Cabin ◽  
Design Specifications ◽  
Design Solutions

This paper presents a new approach to producing innovative design concepts. The proposed approach involves extending the inventive principles of TRIZ by integrating other TRIZ and TRIZ-inspired tools. The set of inventive principles is then structured according to a framework adapted from I-Ching and represented using TRIZ’s Behaviour-Entity (BE) formalism to which constraints have also been added. The adoption of the BE representation enables a reduction in the amount of repeated information in the inventive principles. A BE pair contains information on a design solution. A Behaviour-Entity-Constraint (BEC) triple additionally has information on constraints on the solution. The BEC representation thus facilitates the retrieval and generation of design solutions from design specifications. The paper uses the problem of laying out seats in an aircraft cabin to illustrate advantages of the proposed approach.

Design Concept Generation With Variational Deep Embedding Over Comprehensive Optimization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kikuo Fujita ◽  
Kazuki Minowa ◽  
Yutaka Nomaguchi ◽  
Shintaro Yamasaki ◽  
Kentaro Yaji
Keyword(s):  
Design Concept ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Computational Optimization ◽  
Comprehensive Exploitation ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Latent Space ◽  
Deep Embedding ◽  
Bridge Structures ◽  
Classification Capability

Abstract This paper proposes a framework for generating design concepts through the loop of comprehensive exploitation and consequent exploration. The former is by any sophisticated optimization such as topology optimization with diversely different. The latter realization is due to the variational deep embedding (VaDE), a deep learning technique with classification capability. In the process of design concept generation first, exploitation through computational optimization generates various possibilities of design entities. Second, VaDE learns them. This learning encodes the clusters of similar entities over the latent space with smaller dimensions. The clustering result reveals some design concepts and identifies voids where as-yet-unrecognized design concepts are prospective. Third, the decoder of the learned VaDE generates some possibilities for new design entities. Forth such new entities are examined, and relevant new conditions will trigger further exploitation by the optimization. In this paper, this framework is implemented for and applied to the conceptual design problem of bridge structures. This application demonstrates that the framework can identify voids over the latent space and explore the possibility of new concepts. This paper brings up some discussion on the promises and possibilities of the proposed framework.

scholarly journals Usefulness Simulation of Design Concepts

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alborz Bekhradi ◽  
Bernard Yannou ◽  
Romain Farel ◽  
Benjamin Zimmer ◽  
Jeya Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Front End ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Elderly Falls

Usefulness, from the utilitarianism perspective, is the ability of a product or service to improve the well-being of humans and to minimize their suffering in different situations. In the case of the widespread issue of falls among the elderly, designing an adapted solution to is not an obvious task. The latter requires quantifying various usage scenarios. The usage scenarios, or segments, associated with elderly falls must be investigated to ensure that newly designed products and services are likely to bring essential health, social, and economic values. Optimizing a design solution by considering the coverage of such usage segments extends the classical methods of design for market approaches. Starting from a disparate literature on elderly falls’ issue, we have first built a usage scenarios space. Next, the usefulness and the coverage ability of three design solutions are evaluated over a tessellation of usage segments. In addition, the developed usage simulator is used to assess the potential of non or poorly covered usage segments to deliver insightful information in order to truly be a need seeker in the front-end of innovation.

A User Study to Evaluate the Function Model and Function Interaction Model for Concept Generation

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raveesh Ramachandran ◽  
Benjamin W. Caldwell ◽  
Gregory M. Mocko
Keyword(s):  
User Study ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Function Model ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Conceptual Design Phase ◽  
Independent Form ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
And Function

Function modeling is often performed during the conceptual design phase to identify what the product must do in a solution independent form. However, function-based design approaches do not adequately enable designers to capture and analyze the non-functional requirements, interactions between the product of interest and other products and interactions between the product of interest and human users. This paper presents the results of a user study to evaluate how two models: (1) traditional function models (FM) and (2) the function interaction model (FIM), relate to functional and non-functional engineering requirements, and how they affect the creation of design solutions. Forty students were divided into two groups and asked to generate solutions for a design problem using either the function model (FM) or the function interaction model (FIM). The concepts were then evaluated in terms of quantity and quality by an external panel. Results from this study indicate that the quantity of solutions generated by the function model (FM) group is greater than the function interaction model (FIM) group. However, the quality of design concepts from the function interaction model (FIM) group is greater than the function model (FM) group. Further, nonfunctional requirements that are important to the design solutions cannot be captured in function model and thus are not reflected in the associated solution concepts.

Using Parameterized Pareto Sets to Model Design Concepts

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Malak ◽  
Christiaan J. J. Paredis
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Pareto Set ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Pareto Sets ◽  
The Many

Decisions made during conceptual design can have a major impact on the success of a design project, and designers must take care to select a concept that leads to a desirable design solution. However, the inherently imprecise nature of design concepts complicates decision making. A single concept relates to a large set of specific design implementations, each of which has a different level of desirability based on the tradeoffs designers are willing to make. Thus, designers must consider tradeoffs across the many possible implementations of a design concept in order to decide between concepts rigorously. To accomplish this efficiently, designers require an abstract understanding of the characteristics of a design concept. In this paper, we describe an approach to modeling design concepts that is based on an extension of the notion of a Pareto set, called a parameterized Pareto set. Using this construct, designers can generate a model based on information about prior implementations of a design concept in a way that includes tradeoff information while being independent of implementation details and reusable for different design problems. We demonstrate the approach on the conceptual design of a gearbox. The example involves two different design scenarios that serve to demonstrate the reusability of the model and effectiveness of the overall approach.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of foundation design solutions on permafrost soils

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 01019
Author(s):  
Ivan Inzhutov ◽  
Victor Zhadanov ◽  
Maxim Semenov ◽  
Sergei Amelchugov ◽  
Alexey Klimov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Foundation Design ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Coefficient Of Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Permafrost Soils ◽  
Design Solutions

The article analyzes design solutions of foundations on permafrost soils, their advantages and disadvantages. Innovative design solutions that increase the energy efficiency of buildings are proposed. Examples of innovative foundations of platform type are given. Spatial ventilated foundations are less sensitive to soil deformation. The construction of such a foundation can be made of various materials such as reinforced concrete, metal and timber. A spatial foundation platform based on timber is proposed as one of the innovative examples, which is a promising constructive solution of foundations for construction in the Arctic regions. Wood has a small coefficient of thermal conductivity, which significantly increases the energy efficiency of the structure as a whole. Due to prefabrication of timber structures, the speed of construction is increased. Platforms can have solutions in the form of: system of cross beams, structural plates, plate-rod structure, as well as in the form of shells and folds. Regardless of the design solution, the spatial foundation platform is prefabricated.

High resolution at low voltage: A new approach

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 76-77
Author(s):  
Arthur V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Low Voltage ◽  
Emission Sources ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Probe Diameter ◽  
Low Voltage Operation ◽  
Sufficient Intensity ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopes ◽  
Immersion Type

With the introduction of field-emission sources and “immersion-type” objective lenses, the resolution obtainable with modern scanning electron microscopes is approaching that obtainable in STEM and TEM-but only with specific types of specimens. Bulk specimens still suffer from the restrictions imposed by internal scattering and the need to be conducting. Advances in coating techniques have largely overcome these problems but for a sizeable body of specimens, the restrictions imposed by coating are unacceptable.For such specimens, low voltage operation, with its low beam penetration and freedom from charging artifacts, is the method of choice.Unfortunately the technical dificulties in producing an electron beam sufficiently small and of sufficient intensity are considerably greater at low beam energies — so much so that a radical reevaluation of convential design concepts is needed.The probe diameter is usually given by

scholarly journals Design, Manufacturing and Test of CFRP Front Hood Concepts for a Light-Weight Vehicle

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1374
Author(s):  
Paul Bere ◽  
Mircea Dudescu ◽  
Călin Neamțu ◽  
Cătălin Cocian
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Torsional Stiffness ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Black Metal ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Metal Design ◽  
Body Components ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Transversal Stiffness

Composite materials are very often used in the manufacture of lightweight parts in the automotive industry, manufacturing of cost-efficient elements implies proper technology combined with a structural optimization of the material structure. The paper presents the manufacturing process, experimental and numerical analyses of the mechanical behavior for two composite hoods with different design concepts and material layouts as body components of a small electric vehicle. The first model follows the black metal design and the second one is based on the composite design concept. Manufacturing steps and full details regarding the fabrication process are delivered in the paper. Static stiffness and strain values for lateral, longitudinal and torsional loading cases were investigated. The first composite hood is 254 times lighter than a similar steel hood and the second hood concept is 22% lighter than the first one. The improvement in terms of lateral stiffness for composite hoods about a similar steel hood is for the black metal design concept about 80% and 157% for the hood with a sandwich structure and modified backside frame. Transversal stiffness is few times higher for both composite hoods while the torsional stiffness has an increase of 62% compared to a similar steel hood.

Functional Design Methodology Based on Knowledge Databases Achievements

2015 ◽  
Vol 809-810 ◽  
pp. 865-870
Author(s):  
Manuela Roxana Dijmărescu ◽  
Dragoș Iliescu ◽  
Marian Gheorghe
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Early Phases

Various architectures exposing certain phases of the design process have been developed. A closer analysis of the presented timelines is leading more to postpone the design solution rather than advancing it in the early phases. This paper advances a new architecture for the design process with the main emphasize on the product functional design, based on functional-constructive knowledge stored in databases, and on the principle of selecting design solutions in an incipient phase and developing them during the further design process stages.

scholarly journals Lao Tze and Confucius' philosophies influenced the designs of Kisho Kurokawa and Tadao Ando

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudy Trisno ◽  
Fermanto Lianto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
The Times ◽  
Japanese Architecture ◽  
Tadao Ando ◽  
Interesting Area

AbstractJapanese architecture retains the characteristic of appreciating its culture, despite the growing influence of Western architecture. Based on this issue, it is a very interesting area to study to understand the design concepts behind two masterpieces from the world’s architects Kisho Kurokawa and Tadao Ando. This study uses a qualitative method by analyzing theories and case studies in the work of the architects Kisho Kurokawa and Tadao Ando. It conducts the following detailed analyses; (a) Western architects who influenced both design concepts; (b) The primary considerations of the two architects in facing the demands of the times. The study concludes that Kisho Kurokawa was influenced by Kenzo Tange, while Tadao Ando has been influenced by Le Corbusier and Louis Khan. The primary consideration of Kisho Kurokawa is Hanasuki, while for Tadao Ando it is Shintai. The findings in this study are that the two architects in the design concept were inspired by Japanese culture, where Japanese culture is influenced by the philosophy of Lau Tze and Confucius.

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