An approach to functional synthesis of solutions in mechanical conceptual design. Part III: Spatial configuration |
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| Authors: | Dr A. Chakrabarti T. P. Bligh |
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| Affiliation: | (1) The Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;(2) Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, CB2 1P2 Cambridge, UK |
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| Abstract: | These three papers describe an approach to the synthesis of solutions to a class of mechanical design problems; these involve transmission and transformation of mechanical forces and motion, and can be described by a set of inputs and outputs. The approach involves(1) identifying a set of primary functional elements and rules of combining them, and(2) developing appropriate representations and reasoning procedures for synthesizing solution concepts using these elements and their combination rules; these synthesis procedures can produce an exhaustive set of solution concepts, in terms of their topological as well as spatial configurations, to a given design problem.This paper (Part III) describes a constraint propagation procedure which, using a knowledge base of spatial information about a set of primary functional elements, can produce possible spatial configurations of solution concepts generated in Part II. |
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| Keywords: | Computer aided design Conceptual design Concept generation Constraint propagation Functional modelling Functional reasoning Functional synthesis Mechanical design Spatial configuration Spatial reasoning Transmission design |
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