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  • Design evaluation and performance assessment of rotorcraft technology by 2050 
    Stevens, Jos; Rademaker, Edward; Scullion, Calum; Vouros, Stavros; van Oosten, Nico; Misté, Gianluigi; Venturelli, Giovanni; Nalianda, Devaiah; Pachidis, Vassilios; Benini, Ernesto (Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), 2019-09-17)
    The extended Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) within the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [Ref. 1] proposes to introduce a number of concept aircraft and rotorcraft to replace reference technology counterparts ...
  • Design exploration and performance assessment of advanced recuperated hybrid-electric UAM rotorcraft 
    Saias, Chana Anna; Roumeliotis, Ioannis; Goulos, Ioannis; Pachidis, Vassilios; Bacic, Marko (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021-11-09)
    The design of efficient, environmentally friendly and quiet powerplant for rotorcraft architectures constitutes a key enabler for Urban Air Mobility application. This work focuses on the development and application of a ...
  • Design exploration for engineering design optimisation : an aircraft conceptual perspective 
    Nunez, Marco (Cranfield University, 2010-11)
    Most of the efforts in optimisation so far have been focused on the development of novel or the improvement of existing numerical methods for an effective computation of optimal solutions. Particular attention has been ...
  • Design exploration methodology for ultra thick laminated composites 
    Carrasco-Munoz Y Guerra, Jacinto (Cranfield University, 2012-01)
    Existing test and analytical methods (theoretical and numerical) are normally restricted to thin laminate components, which cannot accurately represent the 3D stress state behaviour of the so called Ultra Thick Laminates ...
  • Design feasability of the electrical network for turboelectric aircraft propulsion. 
    Ibrahim, Kingsley (2020-01)
    The motivation for this research is the need for safer and more environmentally friendly air transport system. Electrical propulsion systems have been identified as a potential method for improving aircraft performance ...
  • Design for additive manufacturing based on the axiomatic design method 
    Salonitis, Konstantinos (Springer, 2016-03-03)
    Additive manufacturing technology promises to revolutionise the way products are manufactured and supplied to the customer. Existing design methods, however, do not take full advantage of the additive manufacturing process ...
  • Design for additive manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints 
    Thompson, Mary Kathryn; Moroni, Giovanni; Vaneker, Tom; Fadel, Georges; Campbell, R. Ian; Gibson, Ian; Bernard, Alain; Schulz, Joachim; Graf, Patricia; Ahuja, Bhrigu; Martina, Filomeno (Elsevier, 2016-06-25)
    The past few decades have seen substantial growth in Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. However, this growth has mainly been process-driven. The evolution of engineering design to take advantage of the possibilities ...
  • Design for automated manufacture of composite structures 
    Astwood, Simon (2017-07)
    New trends in manufacturing highlight the growing use of composite materials to produce lightweight, high performance structures. This requires the design stage to account for complex manufacturing constraints, and as ...
  • Design for circular behaviour: Considering users in a circular economy 
    Wastling, Thomas; Charnley, Fiona; Moreno, Mariale (MDPI, 2018-05-25)
    In a linear economy, a product is manufactured and sold to a customer. Then, little concern is given to what the user actually does with it when they have it. However, in a circular economy where the aim is to circulate ...
  • Design for Digitally Enabled Industrial Product-Services Systems 
    Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Farsi, Maryam; Addepalli, Sri; Latsou, Christina (Elsevier, 2023-07-08)
    Planning the life cycle of industrial product-service systems (IPS2) is highly challenging due to uncertainties experienced in predicting supply (e.g. spares) and demand (e.g. availability) related factors. Whilst ...
  • Design for Low-Cost Country Sourcing: Motivation, Basic Principles and Design Guidelines 
    Lanza, G.; Weiler, S.; Vogt, S. (Cranfield University Press, 2009-03-31)
    Not every product can be successfully sourced in low-cost countries. Disadvantageous cost structures or extremely complex workpiece designs are the most frequent reasons for failures. A design that has been tailored to ...
  • Design for prognostics and security in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). 
    Aslam, Sohaib (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2020-03)
    There is an evolutionary progression of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) toward more complex and high power density architectures such as Systems-on- Chip (SoC) and Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP). ...
  • Design for Supportability : An Essential Component of New Product Development 
    Goffin, Keith (Industrial Research Institute Inc, 2000-01-01)
    During new product development, R&D engineers consider a wide range of often conflicting requirements, including product features, cost, quality, and manufacturability. Another factor, which companies often neglect, is ...
  • Design for wire + arc additive manufacture: design rules and build orientation selection 
    Lockett, Helen L.; Ding, Jialuo; Williams, Stewart W.; Martina, Filomeno (Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-20)
    Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture (WAAM) is an additive manufacturing technology that can produce near net-shape parts layer by layer in an automated manner using welding technology controlled by a robot or CNC machine. WAAM ...
  • Design for wire and arc additive layer manufacture 
    Mehnen, Jorn; Ding, J.; Lockett, Helen L.; Kazanas, P. (2010-04-19)
    Additive Layer Manufacture (ALM) is a technique whereby freeform structures are produced by building up material in layers. RUAM (Ready-to-Use Additive Layer Manufacturing) is an innovative concept for building large ...
  • A design framework for adaptive digital twins 
    Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Fernández del Amo, Iñigo; Ariansyah, Dedy; Bulka, Dominik; Vrabič, Rok; Roy, Rajkumar (Elsevier, 2020-05-20)
    Digital Twin (DT) is a ‘living’ entity that offers potential with monitoring and improving functionality of interconnected complex engineering systems (CESs). However, lack of approaches for adaptively connecting the ...
  • Design framework for optimizing waypoints of vehicle trajectory considering terminal velocity and impact angle constraints 
    Kim, Youngil; Cho, Namhoon; Park, Jongho; Kim, Youdan (Taylor and Francis, 2021-05-17)
    Ballistic missiles often require the terminal velocity and impact angle to be confined to a certain region around a desired value considering a wide variety of uncertain initial conditions and operational ranges. This study ...
  • A design framework for technology prioritisation in the context of through-life engineering services 
    Chi, Jie; Latsou, Christina; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Grenyer, Alex; Rushton, Keith R.; Brocklebank, Simon (Elsevier, 2021-06-02)
    Lack of methods on standardising the prioritisation of technologies within the context of Through-life Engineering Services (TES) has been identified. Inspired by the TES value streams and support activity assets, existing ...
  • Design guidelines towards absolute sustainability for technical product-service systems 
    Aurich, Jan C; Werrel, Max; Glatt, Moritz (Cranfield University, 2022-11-08)
    The concept of product -service systems (PSS), established around the turn of the millennium, was coined by the realization of increased sustainability potential s compared to offering products alone . As the concept of ...
  • Design implications towards inspection reduction of large scale structures 
    Ioannou, Anastasia; Wang, Lin; Brennan, Feargal P. (Elsevier, 2017-05-09)
    Operational management is a key contributor in life cycle costs, especially for large scale assets which are in most times complex in structural hierarchy and with a large nominal service life. Decisions on the operational ...