Concurrent Engineering: Tools and Technologies for Mechanical System Design

1 Basic Concepts and Methods.- World-Class Concurrent Engineering.- Virtual Team Framework and Support Technology.- Integrated Tools and Technologies for Concurrent Engineering of Mechanical Systems.- The Emerging Basis for Multidisciplinary Concurrent Engineering.- Presentation and Evaluation of New Design Formulations for Concurrent Engineering.- Data and Process Models for Concurrent Engineering of Mechanical Systems.- Storage and Retrieval of Objects for Simulations in Mixed Application Areas.- Analysis of Structural Systems Undergoing Gross Motion and Nonlinear Deformations.- Multidisciplinary Simulation.- Dynamic Analysis of Rigid-Flexible Mechanisms.- Decoupling Method in Control Design.- 2 Application Sectors.- Implementation and Applications of Multidisciplinary Concurrent Engineering.- Simulation-Based Design of Automotive Systems.- Simulation-Based Design of Off-Road Vehicles.- Modeling and Optimization of Aero-Space and Naval Structures.- Teleoperation of a Redundant Manipulator.- 3 Manufacturing.- Relationship Between Design for Manufacturing, a Responsive Manufacturing Approach, and Continuous Improvement.- Defect Preventive Quality Control in Manufacturing.- An Approach for PDES/STEP Compatible Concurrent Engineering Applications.- Concurrent Engineering Tools for Forging Die and Process Design.- Effects of Structural Dynamics on Chatter in Machine Tools and Its Evaluation at Design Stage.- 4 Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization.- Concurrent Engineering Design Optimization in a CAD Environment.- Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization Tool for Concurrent Engineering.- Concurrent Engineering Design with and of Advanced Materials.- Optimization of Automotive Systems.- Multicriterion Optimization of Large Scale Mechanical Systems.- Design Sensitivity Analysis for Coupled Systems and their Application to Concurrent Engineering.- Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis for Design Optimization.- Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis and What-if Tool for 3-D Design Applications.- Optimal Design of Vibrating Structures.- The Problem of Additional Load of Minimum Work in a Thin Plate.- Layout Optimization of Large FE Systems by New Optimality Criteria Methods: Applications to Beam Systems.- Analysis and Design of Structural Sandwich Panels Against Denting.- 5 Virtual Prototyping and Human Factors.- Virtual Prototyping for Mechanical System Concurrent Engineering.- An Open Software Architecture for Operator-in-the-Loop Simulator Design and Integration.- Man/Machine Interaction Dynamics and Performance Analysis.- Simulated Humans, Graphical Behaviors, and Animated Agents.- Human Factors in Vehicle Driving Simulation.- Evaluating In-Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning Systems for IVHS.- Tools and Methods for Developing Easy to Use Driver Information Systems.- The Perception of Visually Simulated Environments.- Effective Vehicle Driving Simulation: Lessons from Aviation.- Active Psychophysics: A Psychophysical Program for Closed-Loop Systems.- Keyword Index.