a philosophy of architectural design rather than a separate style, expressed in Louis Sullivan’s “form follows function” and Le Corbu-sier’s concept of a house as a machine for living in, under the premise that buildings ought to express construction, materials, and accommodation of purpose...
The design of a new six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) parallel-kinematics machine (PKM) has been proposed. Different from the conventional Stewart-Gough platform which has six extensible legs, the new PKM employs three identical RPRS legs to support the moving platform. Since all joint axes, exc...
The relationship betweenman and machinehas long been a complex and nuanced one, especially for modern artisans. Whilemachinesare often seen as tools that can enhance productivity, the comparison betweenhuman hands and mechanical efficiencycan be misleading.Machines, with their ability to perform tasks ...
Finally, from the set of intentions and a means-ends reasoning approach an action is taken using the agent’s effectors (such as mechanical arms and screens). To summarize, BDI is a paradigm and set of general principles, which can be used to design the ar...
The use of cellular structures has led to unprecedented outcomes in various fields involving optical and mechanical cloaking, negative thermal expansion, and a negative Poisson’s ratio. The unique characteristics of periodic cellular structures primaril
M; the maximum neighboring scale M was set as the network diameter, which is the max shortest path length). Increasing moving steps present expansion scales of the probed neighborhood, which indicates local to distributed preferences of information exchange during the diffusion process. The diffusion...
I will not repeat the story here but will point out, rather, how the climate crisis and environmentalism generally since the 1970s rejuvenated the 1930s architecture-as-machine metaphor and, later, the architecture-as-organism metaphor. Set aesthetic consequences aside: as climate and energy ...
As can be seen from Table 4, the tensile modulus was affected by the waviness of the warp tows: higher waviness resulted in lower modulus. Since the volume fraction of the load-carrying fibres plays an important role in the mechanical properties of composite materials, the tensile properties ...
Research in 3D integration has been attracted researchers from industries as well as academics due to its superior benefits over 2D architecture such as better performance, lower power consumption, small form factor and support for heterogeneous technolo
Number of mechanical and electronic systems and interfaces: Since it is simple numbers, it is easy to compare as mechanical systems increase noise and friction and therefore a smaller number of mechanical systems means smoother, less vibrating, quieter and energy efficient systems. (b) Minimization...