Abstract: The increase in complexity of modern mechanical systems can often lead to systems that are difficult to diagnose and, therefore, require a great deal of time and money to return to a normal ...

Abstract: Function modeling is often used in the conceptual design phase as an approach to capture a form-independent purpose of a product. Previous research uses a repository of reverse-engineered function ...

Abstract: In this paper, two approaches for computing the topological information content of function models in mechanical engineering design are developed and compared. Previously, a metric for computing ...

Abstract: This paper presents two design experiments to evaluate the impact of the size and shape of a morphological chart used to identify promising concepts within those charts. In each experiment, ...

Abstract: In this research, the interpretability of function structures is evaluated through a user study in which participants are given function structures and asked to identify the product that is ...