Abstract: To minimize the coordination efforts among design teams and expedite the design process via parallel workflows, a cooperative and decentralized environment is often considered for team-based design. ...

Abstract: The two-phase method is a matrix-based approach for system decomposition, in which a system is represented by a rectangular matrix to capture dependency relationships of two sets of system ...

Abstract: The current practice in problem decomposition assumes that (i) design problems can be rationally decomposed a priori and (ii) decomposition can usefully result in complexity reduction a priori. ...

Abstract: We have developed a decomposition-based rapid redesign methodology for large and complex computational redesign problems. While the overall methodology consists of two general steps: diagnosis and ...

Abstract: This paper presents a formal two-phase decomposition method for complex design problems that are represented in an attribute-component incidence matrix. Unlike the conventional approaches, this ...

Abstract: This paper presents a pattern-based decomposition methodology for rapid redesign to support design customization in agile manufacturing of evolutionary products. The methodology has three functional ...

Abstract: We have developed a formal method for decomposition of complex design problems in two phases: dependency analysis and matrix partitioning. Of the most distinct characteristic in this method is ...

Abstract: Contrary to the large dataset of test results exploring the monotonic bending response of steel tubes, the corresponding dataset of cyclic bending tests remains very small. Seven compact and semicompact S355J2H cold-formed ...