Abstract: Recent legislative and social pressures have driven manufacturers to consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. One of the key ...

Abstract: Driven by the moral sense of obligation, legislative and social pressures, manufacturers now consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. ...

Abstract: This paper presents a framework for identification of the global optimum of Kriging models that have been tuned to approximate the response of some generic objective function and constraints. ...