Big Bang technology: What’s next in design education, radical innovation or incremental change?

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IMPROVED BIG BANG-BIG CRUNCH ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMAL DIMENSIONAL DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL WALLS SYSTEM

Among the different lateral force resisting systems, shear walls are of appropriate stiffness and hence are extensively employed in the design of high-rise structures. The architectural concerns regarding the safety of these structures have further widened the application of coupled shear walls. The present study investigated the optimal dimensional design of coupled shear walls based on the im...

BIG BANG – BIG CRUNCH ALGORITHM FOR LEAST-COST DESIGN OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

The Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB–BC) method is a relatively new meta-heuristic algorithm which inspired by one of the theories of the evolution of universe. In the BB–BC optimization algorithm, firstly random points are produced in the Big Bang phase then these points are shrunk to a single representative point via a center of mass or minimal cost approach in the Big Crunch phase. In this paper, the...

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Consistency or Crisis?

The early hot, dense, expanding Universe was a primordial reactor in which the light nuclides D, He, He and Li were synthesized in astrophysically interesting abundances. The challenge to the standard hot big bang model (Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ≡ BBN) is the comparison between the observed and predicted abundances, the latter which depend only on the universal abundance of nucleons. The curren...

Concurrent engineering performance: Incremental versus radical innovation

This article analyzes the link between the use of concurrent engineering (CE) and success in new product development (NPD) under varying conditions of uncertainty and complexity—radical versus incremental innovations. Using linear regression, the results obtained indicate that overlapping activities, inter-functional integration and teamwork positively affect NPD performance in terms of develop...