Abstract
This paper presents concepts related to the development of an expert system suitable for wire-rope-based mechanical system design. The design of mechanical systems with wire ropes, involving the selection of a wire rope and its supporting structure, is currently accomplished by implementing a cataloged solution for the given application and is typically performed without benefit of detailed analysis. For the most part, resulting systems reflect the wire rope engineer's preferences and experience with various wire rope configurations and designs. The current study presents concepts for an expert systems approach to the design problem that utilizes recently developed, detailed wire rope analysis capabilities. Thus the expert system not only incorporates the expertise in the form of rules but also interacts with analysis packages for design development. It is believed that wire rope systems designed in this manner may prove less costly to manufacture and have lifetimes exceeding those currently specified for most applications.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Buchanan, B.G.; Shortliffe, E.H. ed. (1984) Rule-Based Expert Systems. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Klahr, P.; Waterman, D.A., eds., (1986) Expert Systems: Techniques, Tools, and Applications, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Dym, C.L. (1985) Expert systems: New approaches to computer-aided engineering. Eng. Comput. 1, 9–25
Rychener, M.D. (1983) Expert systems for engineering design: Experiments with basic techniques. In: Proceedings of IEEE Trends and Applications 1983, pp. 21–27
Rosen, D.: Riley, D.; Erdman, A. (1986a) Development of a design inference engine, with application to mechanism sythesis, part 1: Introduction to the inference engine. ASME #86-DET-156
Rosen, D.; Rilley, D.; Erdman, A. (1986b) Development of a design inference engine, with application to mechanism sythesis, part 2: Creation of a knowledge base for dwell mechanism synthesis. ASME #86-DET-157
Biswas, M.; Welch, J.G. (1987) BDES: A bridge design expert system. Eng. Comput. 2, 125–136
Dixon, J.R.; Simmons, M.K. (1985) Expert systems for mechanical design: A program of research. ASME #85-DET-78
Dixon, J.R.; Libardi, E.C.; Luby, S.C.; Vaghul, M.; Simmons, M.K. (1987) Expert systems for mechanical design: Examples of symbolic representations of design geometries. Eng. Comput. 2, 1–10
Mitchell, T.M.; Steinberg, L.I.; Shulman, J.S. (1984) A knowledge-based approach to design. In: Proceedings of IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp. 27–34
Brown, D.C.; Chandrasekaran, B. (1983) An approach to expert systems for mechanical design. In: Proceedings of IEEE Trends and Applications 1983, pp. 173–180
Lembeck, M.F.; Velinsky, S.A. (1987) A prototype expert system for wire rope based mechanical systems design. In: Proceedings of 7th World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, pp. 1029–1032
Velinsky, S.A.; Anderson, G.L.; Costello, G.A. (1984) Wire rope with complex cross sections. J. Eng. Mech. 110, 380–391
Costello, G.A.; Phillips, J.W. (1975) Effective modulus of twisted wire cables. J. Eng. Mech. Div. In: Proceedings of American Society of Civil Engineers, 102, 171–181
Velinsky, S.A. (1985) Analysis of fiber core wire rope. J. Energy Resources Tech. Trans. ASME, 107, 388–393
Phillips, J.W.; Costello, G.A. (1985) Analysis of wire ropes with internal-wire-rope cores. J. Appl. Mech. Trans. ASME 52, 510–516
Velinsky, S.A. (1988) Design and mechanics of multi-lay wire strands. J. Mech. Trans. Automat. Des., Trans. ASME 110, 152–160
Velinsky, S.A. (1989) On the design of wire rope. J. Mech. Transm. Automat. Des., Trans. ASME 111, 382–388
Ullman, D.G.; Dietterich, T.A. (1987) Mechanical design methodology: Implications on future developments of computer-aided design and knowledge-based systems. Eng. Comput. 2, 21–29
Kinoglu, F.; Riley, D.; Donath, M. (1986) Knowledge-based system model of the design process. In: Proceedings of ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, pp. 181–191
Dixon, J.R.; Howe, A.; Cohen, P.R.; Simmons, M.K. (1986) Dominic I: progress towards domain independence in design by iterative redesign. In: Proceedings of ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, pp. 199–206
Committee of Wire Rope Producers (1979) Wire Rope Users Manual Washington, DC: American Iron and Steel Institute
Bahke, E. (1980a) Principles defining the strength of wire ropes and chains, part I. Wire 30, 54–61
Bahke, E. (1980b) Principles defining the strength of wire ropes and chains, part II. Wire 30, 168–176
Allen, R.H.; Boarnet, M.G.; Culbert, C.J.; Savely, R.T. (1987) Using hybrid expert system approaches for engineering applications. Eng. Comput. 2, 95–110
Love, A.E.H. (1944) A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Chaps. 18, 19. New York: Dover Pub. Inc.
Costello, G.A.; Butson, G.J. (1982) A simplified bending theory for wire rope. J. Eng. Mech. Div. In: Proceedings of American Society of Civil Engineers 108, 219–227
Chien, C.H.; Costello, G. A. (1985) Effective length of a fractured wire in wire rope. J. Eng. Mech. 111, 952–961
Lembeck, M.F.; Wellnitz, L.J.; Santos, Jr., J.V. (1987) Prototype development of an expert spacecraft design system. ASME Special Pub. #DE-Vol. 11, pp. 83–88
Groundwater, E.H.; Lembeck, M.F.; Sarsfield, S. (1988) Prototype development of an expert planning system. In: Proceedings of 4th Conference on Al for Space Applications, p. 67
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Velinsky, S.A., Lembeck, M.F. Designing wire-rope-based mechanical systems in an expert system environment. Engineering with Computers 6, 167–176 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01200314
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01200314