The development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies has brought new design possibilities, and to utilise those possibilities, new sources of AM design knowledge are needed. This paper presents an inductive methodology for extracting AM design...
Functional textiles and clothing designed for children should provide a safe and supportive environment, encompassing comfort, safety, health, wellbeing, and cognitive development, as well as fostering interaction and exploration. This study explores...
(1) Background: Functional design is an activity that is part of conceptual design; it aims to clarify customer needs and develop the functional architecture and solution concepts for a product or system under development. The existing functional des...
Buildings are significant contributors to energy-related sustainability challenges and a sustainable future. Practice shows—that the traditional building design process is becoming ineffective and will no longer be able to meet the determined require...
User satisfaction with a product plays a direct role in the purchasing decisions. With the enrichment of material life and the growth of individual requirements, this satisfaction is derived from the requirement for functionality to aesthetics. Conve...
The main focus of this paper is the integration of an integrated function modeling (IFM) framework in an engineering framework based on graph-based design languages (GBDLs). Over the last decade, GBDLs have received increasing attention as they offer...
The safety of robotics and automation technologies is a significant concern for stakeholders in Industry 5.0. Ensuring cost-effectiveness and inherent safety requires applying the defense-in-depth principle. This paper introduces a novel risk-informe...
Society awareness and environmental goals are forcing the aerospace industry to develop new sustainable system architectures. The components in the new system have to meet new functional requirements using alternative technologies and design solution...
Functional analysis plays a critical role in early-stage aircraft system design by defining system functions that guide downstream architectural development and verification. In practice, many design deficiencies originate not from incorrect physical...
The functional gene is a product of functional information expression methods inspired by biological genes. Product innovation design is essentially a process of functional problem-solving, which has an intrinsic connection with biological gene expre...
The product innovation design is an innovation-intensive process that requires abundant knowledge and design experience, even across industries and disciplines, as a resource for problem solving. Therefore, designers need to have a good command of mo...
Introduction of metals as biomaterials has been known for a long time. In the early development, sufficient strength and suitable mechanical properties were the main considerations for metal implants. With the development of new generations of biomat...
The use of extended standard functional analysis of maintenance in the design phase of vehicle structure analysis is presented for the first time, where a matrix of the degree of importance of modules or parts, a matrix size between costs and benefit...
Green design pursues maximum economic efficiency and minimum environmental impact. Green design of mechanical equipment can ensure environmentally friendly design and manufacturing. A rust-off machine is a crucial piece of equipment in remanufacturin...
Structure adaptability design is critical for function evolution in product families, in which many structural and functional design factors are intertwined together with manufacturing cost, customer satisfaction, and final market sales. How to achie...
For business-to-business (B2B) companies, selecting new product concepts is vital to new product development (NPD), since it significantly contributes to the ultimate success and reputation of the product in terms of quality and function. The researc...
Children’s skin is uniquely vulnerable, requiring specialised design solutions that transcend traditional aesthetics. This exploratory study investigates the importance of paediatric dermatology in informing functional fashion design through ex...
The demand for functional beverages is increasing as consumers seek options that offer health benefits, and plant-based beverages are gaining popularity for their associated advantages. The objective of this study was to optimize the formulation of a...
In this paper, we elaborate on theoretical and methodological considerations for designing a sequence of tasks for introducing middle and high school students to functions and their graphs. In particular, we present didactical activities with an arti...
Design optimization through the integration of multiple functions into a single part is a highly effective strategy to reduce costs, simplify assembly, improve performance, and reduce weight. Additive manufacturing facilitates the production of compl...
This study presents an optimal design for a new rotary engine. Instantaneous shape functions were applied to the combustion chamber, and intake and exhaust ports were derived based on the rotor and housing design functions; then optimized design para...
As the basic unit of life, analogous cells possess efficient spatial utilization, material exchange, and information transmission characteristics which provide important insights for micro-community planning and design. Based on three functional attr...
The aim of the work was to develop an easy-to-follow protocol for designing novel functional products with the addition of food industry by-products using design thinking techniques. As a result, a 12-step protocol has been designed and presented. Th...
Several additive manufacturing processes are capable of fabricating three-dimensional parts with complex distribution of material composition to achieve desired local properties and functions. This unique advantage could be exploited by developing an...
The design of aircraft and engine components hinges on the use of computer aided design (CAD) models and the subsequent geometry-based analyses for evaluation of the quality of a concept. However, the generation (and variation) of CAD models to inclu...
The “lock and key” model of molecular recognition, anchored by the canonical sequence–structure–function paradigm, has successfully served as a basis for designing biomimetic biomaterials for decades. This classical concept as...
The properties of each lattice structure are a function of four basic lattice factors, namely the morphology of the unit cell, its tessellation, relative density, and the material properties. The recent advancements in additive manufacturing (AM) hav...
This work proposes to exploit functional redundancy as a tool to enhance the energy efficiency of a robotic system. In a functionally redundant system, i.e., one in which the number of degrees of freedom required to complete the task is smaller than...
The extraordinary diversity of protein sequences and structures gives rise to a vast protein functional universe with extensive biotechnological potential. Nevertheless, this universe remains largely unexplored, constrained by the limitations of natu...
This study, with the engineering background of the design of a stope involving a sublevel mining method in a certain underground metal mine, explored the application of stress-solving methods based on the complex variable function theory in actual en...
Since the lack of a specific design method, guidance and user participation in the product innovation design of digital twins, a product innovation design process of a user requirement-driven digital twin combined with flow function analysis is propo...
Meta-model sre generally applied to approximate multi-objective optimization, reliability analysis, reliability based design optimization, etc., not only in order to improve the efficiencies of numerical calculation and convergence, but also to facil...
This paper proposes a specifically parametric design method for planing hulls using longitudinal functions and shape coefficients in order to meet the requirements for optimizing the hydrodynamic performance of planing hulls. To fully define the geom...
Carboxylate-ligand-based coordination polymers and metal complexes form structurally adaptable crystalline systems, spanning discrete complexes, one-dimensional chains, two-dimensional layers, three-dimensional frameworks, and MOF-like architectures....
In order to meet the diversified rehabilitation needs of people, it is necessary to design a product for the active rehabilitation of patients. Existing rehabilitation chairs use intelligent massage, which can cause problems such as large massage are...
Proteins are the main active molecules of life. Although natural proteins play many roles, as enzymes or antibodies for example, there is a need to go beyond the repertoire of natural proteins to produce engineered proteins that precisely meet applic...
Flood events are characterized by flood peaks and volumes that can be mutually constructed using a copula function. The Indus basin system of Pakistan is periodically threatened by floods during monsoon seasons and thus causes huge losses to infrastr...
Functionally graded materials (FGMs) effectively alleviate residual stress induced by physical property mismatch at dissimilar material interfaces through a graded transition in composition or structure. Among these, the matching of the coefficient o...
A virtual CAD system for thermal functional design is reported in this paper. An improved multi-style garment design and segmental condition special ation was achieved in this system. Moreover, this system predicted the thermal status of human and cl...
Ensuring functional correctness in digital circuitry is arguably the most labor-intensive stage of hardware creation, routinely accounting for upwards of 70% of a project’s total resource allocation. While traditional coverage-driven verificati...
This study presents a method based on active preference learning to overcome the challenges of designing reward functions for autonomous navigation. Results obtained from training with artificially designed reward functions may not accurately reflect...
This study presents a comparative analysis of software platforms and computational methods used in the design of three-dimensional lattice structures and functionally graded materials (FGMs). Through systematic evaluation of 31 computational platform...
This work addresses the synthesis of constant-modulus (CM) radar waveforms whose range-Doppler behavior approximates a prescribed profile in the presence of multiple interference sources. Since the interference power at the matched-filter output amou...
Uncontrolled hemorrhage remains a major challenge in trauma care and surgical interventions, where rapid hemostasis and wound sealing are essential for improving patient survival. Natural polymer-based hydrogels have emerged as promising hemostatic m...
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a versatile technology for cognitive and professional training, enabling the simulation of complex environments that promote engagement, motivation, and adaptive learning. This study presents the design and develop...
Response surface methodology (RSM) has been widely recognized as an essential estimation tool in many robust design studies investigating the second-order polynomial functional relationship between the responses of interest and their associated input...
High-latitude regions of the Earth are rich in natural snow resources; however, owing to their negative impact on daily life, they have not been effectively utilized for a long time and are instead viewed as obstacles that require substantial resourc...
Increasing attention is being paid to the application potential of multi-functional reconfigurable metamaterials in intelligent communication, sensor networks, homeland security, and other fields. A polarization-independent multi-functional reconfigu...
As the increasing demand for clean-label, plant-based, and functional food systems, bigels, an innovative biphasic structured system composed of both hydrogels and oleogels, have emerged as promising research focus for delivering functional ingredien...
Valvular heart disease remains a major global health burden, with currently available prosthetic heart valves failing to fully reproduce the adaptive, regenerative, and long-term functional properties of native valves. Tissue-engineered heart valves...
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