Decision making in engineering design by Schmidt, Linda C.; Chen, Wei; Lewis, Kemper E

By Schmidt, Linda C.; Chen, Wei; Lewis, Kemper E

Presents examples of powerful software of decision-based layout; concept and perform in decision-based layout; insights on dealing with personal tastes, dealing with uncertainty, allotted layout, call for modeling, validation, and different concerns; and end-of-chapter workout difficulties to facilitate studying

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13) Constraint Handling In the previous formulation, only the objectives were constructed using attribute formulation. Alternatively, it is possible to view design constraints as design attributes as well. In these cases, when an attribute is in a certain range, the designer is satisfied (feasible solution), indicating that any attribute level in this range should receive the highest possible value/utility. However, if the attribute is outside the range, then the solution is considered infeasible and correspondingly assigned a value/utility near 0.

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