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Advanced Simulation Methodologies For Crashworthiness And Occupant Safety Assessment Of An Indian Railways Passenger Coach
(2013-05-21)
Accidents involving passenger trains happen regularly in India. The reasons for such accidents could be many; such as weather and flooding, faulty tracks, bridge collapse, collisions caused by signaling errors, mechanical ...
Development Of A Knowledge-Based Hybrid Methodology For Vehicle Side Impact Safety Design
(2011-08-05)
The present research work has been carried out to develop a unified knowledge-based hybrid methodology combining regression-based, lumped parameter and finite element analyses that can be implemented in the initial phase ...
Sustainability by Design : A Descriptive Model of Interaction and a Prescriptive Framework for Intervention
(2017-11-13)
Introduction: Sustainability is humanity’s collective ability to sustain development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs. Preceding closely ...
Understanding And Supporting Conceptual Design Synthesis Of Multiple State Mechanical Devices
(2015-08-07)
Conceptual design synthesis is part of the conceptual phase of the design
process, which focuses on creating alternative, candidate solutions.
Conceptual design phase has the greatest influence on the cost and
characteristics ...
Semiotic Studies on Holistic Order in Product Design
(2018-02-16)
‘Holistic Order’ is a new term used in this study. In literature, its synonyms such as beauty, order, visual order, and aesthetic order have been in usage for a long time. Historical studies on arts & crafts from philosophical ...
An Advanced Study on Jute-Polyester Composites for Mechanical Design and Impact Safety Applications
(2018-05-14)
Natural fiber-reinforced composites are now finding extensive uses in various fields from household articles to automobiles. These composites can score high compared to common synthetic fiber-based composites, notably glass ...
Natural Hand Based Interaction Simulation using a Digital Hand
(2018-04-12)
The focus of the present work is natural human like grasping, for realistic performance simulations in digital human modelling (DHM) environment.
The performance simulation for grasping in DHM is typically done through ...
Development of 2D and 3D Sketching Environment to Support Early Phases of Design
(2018-04-06)
The traditional pen-paper sketching is extensively used in the early stages of product design as it supports creative exploration of product concepts and provides a fluidic mode for the expression of ideas. The Computer ...
Advanced Numerical Approaches for Analysis of Vehicle Ride Comfort, Wheel Bearings and Steering Control
(2018-06-23)
Suspension systems and wheels play a critical role in vehicle dynamics performance of a car in areas such as ride comfort and handling. Lumped parameter models (LPMs) are commonly used for assessing the performance of ...
Mechanical Characterization of Adhesively Bonded Jute Composite Joints under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading Conditions
(2018-03-15)
Fiber-reinforced composites comprise an important class of lightweight materials which are finding increasing applications in engineering structures including body components of automobiles and aircraft. Traditionally, ...