...Reza Deabae; Deyi Xue Adaptable products are designed such that their configurations and parameters can be changed easily in the operation stage to satisfy changes in functional requirements. Design of adaptable products can extend lifespans of these products. A new robust adaptable product design...

...Liping Zhang; Delun Wang; Jian S. Dai A methodology for synthesis and configuration design of metamorphic mechanisms is developed in this paper based on biological modeling and genetic evolution with biological building blocks. The goal is to conceive an appropriate source-metamorphic-mechanism...

...Jian S. Dai; John Rees Jones Metamorphic mechanisms form a class of mechanisms that has the facilities to change configuration from one kind to another with a resultant change in the number of effective links and mobility of movement. This paper develops formal matrix operations to describe...

... by functional constraints. This method presents the designer with multiple solutions to the engineering configuration design problem (ECDP) using a Pareto Genetic Algorithm working on a population of sets instead of a population of individual points and thus results in a more informed a posteriori decision...