Complexity: Theory and Applications (MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering) - Hardcover

Suh, Nam P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195178769 ISBN 13: 9780195178760

Publisher: OUP USA, 2005

Synopsis

Nam P. Suh focussed his axiomatic design theories on methods to understand and deal with complexity. Suh is a well-respected designer and researcher in the fields of manufacturing and composite materials. He is best known for his systems that aim to speed up and simplify the process of design for manufacturing. The 'axioms' in axiomatic design refer to a process to help engineers reduce design specifications down to their simplest components, so that the engineers can produce the simplest possible solution to a problem. Complexity, besides being a key area of burgeoning research in disciplines interested in complex systems and chaos theory (like computer science and physics), is a complicating factor in engineering design that many engineers find difficult to overcome. Suh's multidisciplinary exploration of complex systems is meant to eliminate much of the confusion and allow engineers to accommodate complexity within simple, elegant design solutions.

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Synopsis

Suh (mechanical engineering, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology) offers a general theoretical framework that may be used to solve complexity problems in engineering, science, and even in certain nontechnical areas. To achieve this, he has defined complexity narrowly as a measure of uncertainty in achieving a set of design goals that a system mu

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195178769
• ISBN 13: 9780195178760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312