...; Optimal design; Settling time; Response spectrum t to the inner race, the roller wedges between the ramp DETC97NlB-4043 RAMP-ROLLER CLUTCH Ali A. Seireg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 and outer race and consequently, the clutch is engaged...

...Proceedings of DETC*99 1999 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences September 12-15,1999, Las Vegas, Nevada DETC99-DAC-8557 VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING-BASED OPTIMAL DESIGN OF MULTIPLE FUNCTION PANELS FOR A NEW PEM FUEL CELL STACK Gaofeng Gary Wang Dept, of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering...

...Proceedings of the DETC'OO ASME 2000 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information Engineering Conference Baltimore, Maryland, September 10-13, 2000 D E T C 2 0 0 0 / D A C - 1 4 2 5 3 An Investigation into Modeling and Solution Strategies for Optimal Design and Control...

..., Optimal Design, Automotive Structures ABSTRACT The concept of Compute r Aided Engineer ing (CAE) was first proposed by J. L e m o n at S D R C , and has been widely accepted in automotive industries. C A E numerical ly est imates the pe r fo rmance of au tomobi les and proposes alternative ideas that lead...

... for the NVH performance since configurations of main frame structures are usually determined with respect to crashworthiness in the phase. Therefore, a CAE engineer cannot provide the designer with effective information on time. In this paper, a new optimal design method using a reduction scheme based...

...IMPLICATIONS OF COMPETITOR REPRESENTATION ON OPTIMAL DESIGN Arthur H. C. Yip, Jeremy J. Michalek, Kate S. Whitefoot1 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of competitor product representation on optimal design results in profit-maximization studies...

... it for various prescribed volume constraints. The fundamental frequency is estimated based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. We discovered that there is a unique global optimal solution of this design problem that does not depend on the given volume constraints. The mass sensitivity of optimally designed...

... fixed blade. wind turbine blade blade element momentum theory pitch control morphing blade optimal design OPTIMAL DESIGN OF A SIMPLIFIED MORPHING BLADE FOR FIXED-SPEED HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES Weijun WANG, Ste´phane CARO, Fouad BENNIS Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cyberne...

... Family and Platform Supply Chain Configuration Multi-Objective Optimization Design Concept Exploration Optimal Design Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2012 August 12-15, 2012, Chicago...

... model with an optimization method configured with a genetic algorithm and a simplex method. Finally, it concludes with some discussion on future works. Keywords: Product Family and Platform, Supply Chain Configuration, Market Systems, Globalization, Product Variety, Commonalization, Optimal Design 1...

... The objective of this research is to provide systematic investigations to modeling and optimal design of the air- powered engine for improving its comprehensive performance. A thermo-dynamics model of the air- powered engine based on time coordinate is established. The simulation and analysis results show...

... investigates such a product family deployment problem under the optimal design viewpoint. After some general discussions, a mathematical model of dynamic design decisions is conditionally developed by integrating a combinatorial optimization technique for decision of module selection on commonalization...

... and feasible. quadruped walking machine linkage mechanism dimensional synthesis optimal design 1 Copyright © 2009 by ASME Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2009 August 30 - September 2...

... of commonalization, customization and lineup arrangement under the optimal design paradigm. That is, commonalization is viewed as the operation that restricts the feasible region by fixing a set of design variables related to commonalized components or modules against later customization and final lineup offered...

... engineering design, usiness, and marketing through an integrated optimization odel that is used to provide insight necessary to make nformed environmental policy. eywords: environmental policy, optimal design, game theory, ligopoly, emissions, CAFE, discrete choice analysis, logit, reen engineering...

... necessary behind ones for simultaneously designing a f products. This paper formulates the design problem of mon components as an optimization problem, investigates condition of optimal design through the tradeoff among evel of system-level performance, the number of different ponents, etc...

... optimal design (locations of multiple samples) involves combinatorial exhaustive search and is computationally prohibitive even for a small dimensional Corresponding Author, weichen1@uic.edu. After June 1, 2003, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3111, weichen...

... to the previous research. On the basis of this model, then optimal design of the system is deeply studied. Simulation shows that the system optimization design can effectively improve the system stability. Squeeze film damper (SFD) Sliding bearing Flexible rotor Optimal design Proceedings of DETC'03...

... and c) a Global Condition Index which is a combination of the other indices. A Genetic Algorithm procedure is used to determine the optimum design of the platform using the Global Condition Index as the objective function. Plots of the workspace are presented for the optimal design configuration...

..., optimal design, economic dispatch, modeling process. NOMENCLATURE C = Total cost function FC = Fixed charge f = Coefficient that gives the equilibrium in a characteristic inequality linear constraint for a CHP unit ASME 2005 Inte & C ernational Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers...