Lightweight-design methods for the conceptual phase of the product-development process are becoming increasingly important due to their influence on products’ mass. Besides mass reduction, the redistribution of mass within the product can support the designer in addressing lightweight-design motivations more effectively. This paper introduces a method of systematic mass distribution using the design structure matrix (DSM). Various motivations for lightweight design are therefore transformed into dependencies among product components. A case study of a high-pressure water-jetting unit serves as an application example to illustrate the procedure introduced. Based on a clustering algorithm, novel lightweight-driven product architectures are derived to support optimized mass distribution for the jetting unit.
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%A Laufer, Felix
%A Roth, Daniel
%A Binz, Hansgeorg
%D 2020
%J Proceedings of NordDesign 2020, Lyngby, Denmark, 12th - 14th August 2020
%K 2020 IKTD KT MPE Tagungsbeitrag
%N 1
%R 10.35199/NORDDESIGN2020.10
%T Mass Distribution as an Approach for Designing Lightweight-Driven Product Architectures
%U https://doi.org/10.35199/NORDDESIGN2020.10
%V 1
%X Lightweight-design methods for the conceptual phase of the product-development process are becoming increasingly important due to their influence on products’ mass. Besides mass reduction, the redistribution of mass within the product can support the designer in addressing lightweight-design motivations more effectively. This paper introduces a method of systematic mass distribution using the design structure matrix (DSM). Various motivations for lightweight design are therefore transformed into dependencies among product components. A case study of a high-pressure water-jetting unit serves as an application example to illustrate the procedure introduced. Based on a clustering algorithm, novel lightweight-driven product architectures are derived to support optimized mass distribution for the jetting unit.
%@ 9781912254088
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abstract = {Lightweight-design methods for the conceptual phase of the product-development process are becoming increasingly important due to their influence on products’ mass. Besides mass reduction, the redistribution of mass within the product can support the designer in addressing lightweight-design motivations more effectively. This paper introduces a method of systematic mass distribution using the design structure matrix (DSM). Various motivations for lightweight design are therefore transformed into dependencies among product components. A case study of a high-pressure water-jetting unit serves as an application example to illustrate the procedure introduced. Based on a clustering algorithm, novel lightweight-driven product architectures are derived to support optimized mass distribution for the jetting unit.},
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author = {Laufer, Felix and Roth, Daniel and Binz, Hansgeorg},
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title = {Mass Distribution as an Approach for Designing Lightweight-Driven Product Architectures},
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