caa a22 4500 469072687 CHVBK 20180323132926.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01607944 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01607944 Initial design strategies for iterative design [Elektronische Daten] [Natarajan Ramachandran, Noshir Langrana, Louis Steinberg, Vikram Jamalabad] This paper discusses methods to retrieve designs from a design library in order to achieve a better initial starting point for the iterative model of the design process. The motivation for doing this is to reduce the extensive analysis time required for many iterative design problems. Starting a design at a favorable initial point should help reduce the number of iterations. Four initial design methods have been investigated, varying from a simple nonlibrary method to methods that use designs from a library. The iterative design scheme used is conventional hill-climbing. To evaluate the effectiveness of these methods, the initial design methods were tested on four example problems. They are, a cantilever beam, a gear-pair, a V-belt, and an extruder-die. It was found that the number of iterations reduced approximately to the order of 1/n [referred in the rest of the article as O (1/n)], wheren is the number of stored values in the design library. Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1992 Ramachandran Natarajan Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut Langrana Noshir Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut Steinberg Louis Department of Computer Science, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut Jamalabad Vikram Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 4/3(1992-09-01), 159-169 0934-9839 4:3<159 1992 4 163 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01607944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01607944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ramachandran Natarajan Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Langrana Noshir Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steinberg Louis Department of Computer Science, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jamalabad Vikram Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 4/3(1992-09-01), 159-169 0934-9839 4:3<159 1992 4 163 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer