A conceptual design environment for micromechanisms

This paper presents the use of a knowledge based system and a knowledge sharing environment to support the design of micromechanisms. Based on the experience of a design project, we discuss knowledge representation concerning the function and behavior for supporting functional decomposition. For the knowledge sharing environment, we have extended a finite element analysis system to allow the designer to perform analysis over the network.

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