Designing Complex Systems
eBook - PDF

Designing Complex Systems

Foundations of Design in the Functional Domain

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Designing Complex Systems

Foundations of Design in the Functional Domain

About this book

Without standardized construction elements such as nuts, bolts, bearings, beams, resistors and the like, the design of physical equipment is hopelessly inefficient, and engineers are continually bogged down with re-designing these elements over and over again. Emphasizing a top-down approach, this volume considers the purpose and basic features of design and how the concept of value can provide a quantitative measure of that wider interaction of the engineered object with its environment. This work also develops the domain in which functional design takes place and explores how the system concept can be embedded in that domain. It proposes a number of functional design elements and develops them in considerable detail, outlining how they can be applied as part of a coherent design framework. For greater understanding of the discussed concepts, numerous examples and analogies are included.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
  5. Chapter 2. The Purpose of Design
  6. Chapter 3. The Design Methodology
  7. Chapter 4. Functional Elements and the Functional Domain
  8. Chapter 5. Interactions and Systems
  9. Chapter 6. Properties of Systems
  10. Chapter 7. Expanding the Irreducible Element
  11. Chapter 8. Maintained Systems
  12. Chapter 9. The System Designer's Assistant
  13. Index
  14. Back cover