Improved visualisation of the design space using nested performance charts

✍ Scribed by Stuart Burgess; Damiano Pasini; Kazem Alemzadeh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 200 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(03)00032-2

✦ Synopsis

Performance charts are an important visual means by which designers explore the design space and optimise the performance of products and systems. Traditional performance charts are usually limited to one or two design variables. However, many design problems have more than two important design variables. This paper presents a new concept of performance chart that can plot the performance of a product or system as a function of more than two design variables. The paper illustrates the new type of chart with the example of the design optimisation of a large mechanical structure that has four design variables.