Product & System Optimisation

Robustness Measures in System Engineering
Rainer Hoffmann, Jacek Marczyk, EASi Engineering GmbH, Alzenau, Germany
What is robustness / Measures of robustness / Sources of non-robustness

Issues in Product Optimisation at Samtech
P. Morelle, Samtech, Liège, Belgium, Samtech Deutschland (c/o TSE), Reutlingen, Germany
Presentation of state of the art Samtech‘s technology for automatic MDO and Design Automation, and more particularly, BOSS/Quattro MDO task Manager and Topology Optimisation using pure discrete variables

BOSS and discrete variables
P. Morelle, Samtech, Liège, Belgium, Samtech Deutschland (c/o TSE), Reutlingen, Germany
Nearby classical gradient methods, genetic algorithms allow to find solutions of combinatory problems involving :a high number of variables/constraints / discrete variables, even integer or non numerical design variables / discontinuous functions

Forging Simulation for Aeroengine Components
Hengan Ou, Cecil Armstrong and Mark Price, Queen‘s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Forging Criteria/Requirements: Alloy forgeability / Forging Quality: microstructure, mechanical properties, dimensional tolerances / Cost: material utilisation/rejection rate, production rate, post-forge machining