Early design interference detection based on qualitative physics

Developing multi-disciplinary products presents cross-disciplinary problems that are difficult to predict and to solve. Unfortunately, those cross-disciplinary problems are often discovered only at a later stage of the design through physical prototypes and can lead to modification of the conceptual design of a product. This is extremely costly...

Design Interference Detection for Multi-Disciplinary Product Development

In the last decades, the complexity of products has increased exponentially. This com- plexity is due to the ever-growing market demand for new and innovative products with multiple functionalities, to the product size and component density that grow to a level that only a handful of experts can deal with, and to the multi-disciplinarity or...