According to the existing problems in the development of actual product and working process of excavator working device’s boom, the method of integrated design and analysis for excavator boom is put forward. The defects in the process of CAD/CAE integration are summarized, the integrated design and analysis system including parametric design of boom, database design, detail feature simplificati...

We present a functional framework for automated mechanism design based on a two-stage game model of strategic interaction between the designer and the mechanism participants, and apply it to several classes of two-player infinite games of incomplete information. Our approach yields optimal or nearly optimal mechanisms in two application domains using various objective functions. By comparing ou...

Contemporary avant-garde architecture is addressing the demand for an increased level of articulated complexity by means of retooling its methods on the basis of parametric design systems. The contemporary architectural style that has achieved pervasive hegemony within the contemporary architectural avant-garde can be best understood as a research programme based upon the parametric paradigma. ...

This document reports on a case study using a novel approach to teaching generative design systems. The approach extends Context Free, a popular design grammar for producing 2D imagery, to support parametric and evolutionary design. We present some of the challenges that design students have typically faced when learning about generative systems. We describe our solution to providing students w...

This document presents a novel approach to teaching generative design systems by extending a design grammar to support parametric and evolutionary design. We present some of the problems that design students have learning about generative systems, describe our solution to providing students with a progressive learning experience from design grammars, through parametric design, to evolutionary d...

We describe a framework for robust kinematic design based on tolerance analysis and parametric design via configuration space manipulation. The input is a parametric model of a planar mechanical system comprised of lower and higher kinematic pairs in open or closed loops. The robust synthesis task is to find a nominal design that functions correctly despite small parameter variations. This task...

DesignScript, as the name suggests, is positioned at the intersection of design and programming. DesignScript can be viewed as part of the continuing tradition of the development of parametric and associative modeling tools for advanced architectural design and building engineering. Much of the thought processes that contribute to the effective use of DesignScript builds on the tradition of par...