Reliability engineering focuses on the ability of physical equipment to function without failure [...]

A design pattern is a particular prose form of recording design information such that designs which have worked well in the past can be applied again in similar situations in the future. The availability of a collection of design patterns can help both the experienced and the novice designer recognize situations in which design reuse could or should occur. We have found that design patterns: 1)...

Subdivision surfaces are a powerful representation for surface modeling and design. While trimmed NURBS representation is widely applied in all CAID (Computer-aided Industrial Design) softwares, subdivision surfaces (SS) have been implemented only in character animation software like Maya and dedicated to entertainment and movies. In this paper a brief review in Subdivision Surfaces application...

The article presents the results of a research Project aimed at making a characterization of Cognitive Styles (CS) in the dimension of field sensibility-independence, of a sample of 126 Industrial Design students of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (JTLU) in Colombia, 90,47% of them come from the central Andean region. The guiding approach of our project is the Theory of Psychological Differen...