Abstract: Understanding relationships between different products in a market system and predicting how changes in design impact their market position can be instrumental for companies to create better products. We propose a graph ...

Abstract: Reliability-based mission planning of off-road autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) aims to identify an optimal path under uncertain and deformable terrain environment, while satisfying specific mission mobility reliability ...

Abstract: Validating dynamic engineering models is critically important in practical applications by assessing the agreement between simulation results and experimental observations. Though significant progresses have been made, the ...

Abstract: Cryosurgery is a minimally invasive surgical technique using extremely low temperature to destroy undesired tissues. A surgical freezing margin of at least 1 cm is often recommended to avoid ...

Abstract: We conducted a series of axial-torsional strain-controlled experiments on thin-walled tubular specimens of aluminum alloy Al6061 in our lab, examining carefully the probed yield points in axial-torsional space. On the basis ...

Abstract: This paper develops a simulation-based mission mobility reliability (MMR) analysis framework to account for uncertainty in mobility prediction of off-road ground vehicles in mission planning. A concept of MMR is first ...

Abstract: Understanding the impact of engineering design on product competitions is imperative for product designers to better address customer needs and develop more competitive products. In this paper, we propose a dynamic ...