A preliminary investigation of the potential benefits of using the ASTRA Bridge for short-span bridge deck refurbishment projects in Switzerland

How bridge refurbishment projects are performed requires a trade-off between the speed and cost of the project and the amount of traffic disturbances during the project. A possible way to help reach a better balance between these two extremes is the ASTRA Bridge developed in Switzerland. The ASTRA Bridge is a 236-meter long steel ramp system...

Accelerating aircraft design using automated process generation: An experimental architecture for aircraft design software

The aircraft industry has seen many evolutionary changes in the past decades. Since the Boeing 707 however, the general shape and configuration of transport aircraft have remained similar and so has the aircraft design process. Since the aviation community is about to face a revolutionary breakthrough featuring new aircraft concepts like blended...

A multidisciplinary challenge within the procedure of designing in a complex undefines domain

Modern architectural design may be generally appointed as complex. Hence, designing in an undefined domain within the field of architecture (e.g. From the urban to the building and down into the materialisation) is also a risky task. Hence, in some situation, such a design has to deal with one or more severe constraints, therefore such a design...

Model Reduction in Chemical Engineering: Case studies applied to process analysis, design and operation

During the last decades, models have become widely used for supporting a broad range of chemical engineering activities, such as product and process design and development, process monitoring and control, real time optimization of plant operation or supply chain management. Although tremendous advancements continue to take place in the...

Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Business Process Management Tools and Methodologies

Although people have tried to control processes for centuries, with the more recent introduction of larger economies-of-scale and the toughening economic environment organisations are increasingly interested in improving their business processes. This has resulted in the emergence of Business Process Management (BPM), a field that has quickly...

How the DEMO methodology could be a valuable addition to a testing framework

Because many errors still exist in information systems for organizations, professional companies like CEPO are needed for testing information systems on their fit to the organization. To do so, one usually applies a testing framework. The existing (CEPO-way) framework is the result of ten years of experience. The DEMO methodology (Dietz [1]) is...

Modelling the Melting of Post-consumer Scrap within a Rotary Melting Furnace for Aluminium Recycling

Nucleus-based product conceptualization - Part 2. Application in designing for use

when products are being designed, especially in conceptual design where there is a multitude of options for the designer. This paper presents a methodology to generate resource-integrated models unifying representations of the product, the user and the environment based on nucleus modelling, which is presented in Part 1 of this paper, according...

Towards a unified description of product-related processes

To increase the effectiveness of computer support in development and production of durable industrial products (artifacts), three problems still need to be solved: (a) integration ofaspect models used in artifact development, (b) integration of the aspect models used in process planning andprocess representations, (c) integration of(a) and (b)....