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  title info:
    title: Design tool
    sub title: a software for capturing design intent
  name:
    name part: Velamakanni, Ravindra
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: x, 62 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The central purpose of design is to create products that satisfy societal needs within specified constraints. This is a daunting task that involves making a large number of design decisions usually with insufficient information. This results in the design process being iterative with certain decisions being made, the result evaluated, and the product being redesigned. The current project will explore similarities in design reasoning carried out in various areas and aims at developing evidence for successful patterns of design reasoning that involve the exploration of alternatives, evaluation of the various alternatives keeping in mind the required functionality, documentation of intended function and design rationale. I hope to create clear evidence of standard and effective patterns of design reasoning that can be used as a basis for future work in this direction. A structured way of recording design reasoning enables a continuous feedback from the designer at all stages of the design rather than at the very end. This also allows us to catch and eliminate problems at the highest level of hierarchy so that they are eliminated in the earliest stage possible. The notion of a concurrent hierarchical design (CHD) process in which each level of hierarchy is considered to be a design milestone with increasing information content is used. This results in the development of good design practices that integrate principles of mechanics into the embodiment and detail design stage so that the number of design iterations needed to fix design problems are reduced. The present research will develop a working prototype software that enables data collection and, at the same time, ants as an example software implementation. The project also furthers standardization of the design process that can lead to the development of new tools in this area. A software tool is developed for this purpose. It is basically created as a collection of Visual Basic forms with Excel worksheets and Word …
  note: by Ravindra Velamakanni.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Mechanical Engineering".
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1999.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39).
  subject:
    topic: Major mechanical engineering
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-V45
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      url: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-V45
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 000405
    record change date: 20151022050652.0
    record identifier: in00001526723