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ELISE 3D - A DATABASE-DRIVEN ENGINEERING AND DESIGN TOOL
Maier, Moritz
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Year:
2011
Editor:
Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Dong, A.
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Series:
ICED
Section:
Design Methods and Tools Part 1
Page(s):
132-142
Abstract:
Realizing completely new functional design approaches one has to deal with different geometries, materials and construction methods. The acquisition of the needed data for a totally new initial model is complex and therefore design of light structure is typically done by changing or optimizing existing solutions. The database-driven engineering and design tool ELiSE uses marine plankton organism as archetypes. Since about 100.000 different species with different light structure geometries are known, a systematic use of this pool of potentially technically usable structures is consequential. As a result unique design solutions can be found efficiently and integrated to a consisting workflow.
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