Interpretation as a method to be applied by the designer is based on the principle of building a new rationality: constructing material culture, holding as a reference the user, ultimate recipient for the projected product. Interpretation as a method further strengthens the specificity of ‘designerly ways of thinking and designerly ways of knowing’ (Nigel Cross). With this approach we aim to co...

Using product and system design to influence user behaviour offers potential for improving performance and reducing user error, yet little guidance is available at the concept generation stage for design teams briefed with influencing user behaviour. This article presents the Design with Intent Method, an innovation tool for designers working in this area, illustrated via application to an ever...

This paper shows a method for the optimization of the design of a building integrated photovoltaic system minimizing costs over life-time, through the use of Radiance software, taking into account the constraints imposed by the architecture of the building and of the surroundings. It calculates the annual solar radiation in many spots of a surface (flat or complex) from a geometry defined by th...

Risk assessments performed at the conceptual design phase of a product may offer the greatest opportunity to increase product safety and reliability at the least cost. This is an especially difficult proposition, however, as often the product has not assumed a physical form at this early design stage. This paper introduces the Risk in Early Design (RED) method, a method for performing risk asse...

Designing of a PID controller is a very common method for industrial process control and due to its very simple and efficient function; it is used in a wide variety of industrial applications. PID controller to reduce the steady state error and dynamic response of the system is used. PID controller design is an inevitable problem in setting the coefficients need to try a lot of trial and error,...

The development of numerical techniques now permits us to analyze complex structures such as dielectric resonator filters and planar passive elements for coplanar monolithic microwave integrated circuits. In this paper, we describe a novel method for designing dielectric resonator filters. Then a Chebychev band pass filter is designed by coaxially placing high-Q TM01Q dielectric resonators ...

DP curves, which possess the shape-preserving property and linear complexity evaluation algorithm, occupy a significantly important place in computer aided geometric design. Thus to do the research on the DP curves algorithms has a positive meaning. Aphirukmatakun et al. presented a degree elevation algorithm of DP curves based on the transformation between the DP basis and power basis. At the ...

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