A visualization concept for supporting module lightweight design

First published in
DS  
Number in series
68,10, Pt. 2
Start Page
349
End Page
359
Citation
ICED 11 - 18th International Conference on Engineering Design - Impacting Society Through Engineering Design ; 15th - 18th August 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark. - (DS / Design Society ; 68). - Vol. 10 (PART 2): Seite 349-359 (2011)
Contribution to Conference
18th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2011  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84858841490
Publisher
Design Society
In the aviation industry there is a current trend towards modular product design. As usual in aviation design, weight is a crucial factor. Hence, a modular product should not outweigh a former non modular product with an identical functionality. The modules themselves have to be very light to compensate the additional weight due to module interfaces in order to fulfill its demands. With the increasing need for a lighter design the complexity for finding weight optimization potential increases. An easily usable visualization approach for reducing the complexity of a Module Lightweight Design is presented. Adapted treemaps were identified as a suitable tool. In the following, basics of Modularization and Lightweight Design are explained and the adapted treemaps for Module Lightweight Design are discussed and applied in an example.
Subjects
Lightweight design
Modularization
Treemaps
DDC Class
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften
670: Industrielle Fertigung