Abstract: Minimizing brake squeal is one of the most important issues in the development of high performance braking systems. Furthermore, brake squeal occurs due to the changes in unpredictable factors ...

Abstract: Automotive body frames, which profoundly affect automotive performance such as crashworthiness, are generally formed using pressed metal sheets, and the assembled cross-sectional shapes govern the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes an optimum design method, based on our level set-based topology optimization method, for maximizing thermal diffusivity in problems dealing with generic heat transfer boundaries ...

Abstract: Compliant mechanisms are designed to be flexible to achieve a specified motion as a mechanism. Such mechanisms can function as compliant thermal actuators in micro-electromechanical systems by ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new structural optimization method that supports decision-making processes to obtain innovative designs at the conceptual design phase. This method is developed based on ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a machine product design optimization method based on the decomposition of performance characteristics, or alternatively, extraction of simpler characteristics, that is especially ...

Abstract: The widespread availability of affordable high-performance personal computers and commercial software has prompted the integration of structural analyses with numerical optimization, reducing the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a system optimization method for product designs incorporating discrete design variables, in which hierarchical product optimization methodologies are constructed based on ...