Hierarchical modularization and dual-domain formation for product adaptability
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, Yunhui | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Chen, Ying (Biosystems Engineering) Wu, Nan (Mechanical Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Peng, Qingjin (Mechanical Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-12T20:28:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-12T20:28:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Product adaptability is the capability to adjust a product by adding/replacing its constitu-ents for different applications. To acquire this capability, a product should be a modular structure that can form different modular combinations. The purpose of this thesis is pro-posing a design method to develop such products. The method includes the following characteristics: a product essentially implements its applications by providing proper ac-tions/reactions to interact with its surrounding conditions; such actions/reactions can be used to develop the subsystems of a product by building energy-flow or force-path con-nections; optional modules can be separated from the subsystems that contain optional applications; all modules are arranged as an open architecture to provide space and inter-face for each optional module; and each module is endued with the principal content of actions/reactions, inside energy flows or force paths, space, and interfaces constraints, so that it can be physically formed through a dual-domain formation process. Following this method, a multi-purpose electric vehicle (MEV) is developed. Adaptability Efficacy (AE) is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | February 2017 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | APA | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32027 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Development of an open-architecture electric vehicle using adaptable design | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Improvement of product adaptability by efficient module interactions | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adaptability, Modularization, Product design, Module formation | en_US |
| dc.title | Hierarchical modularization and dual-domain formation for product adaptability | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |