TY - JFULL AU - Adam Sobey and James Blake and Ajit Shenoi PY - 2009/3/ TI - Design Histories for Enhanced Concurrent Structural Design T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 21 EP - 33 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1242 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 26, 2009 N2 - The leisure boatbuilding industry has tight profit margins that demand that boats are created to a high quality but with low cost. This requirement means reduced design times combined with increased use of design for production can lead to large benefits. The evolutionary nature of the boatbuilding industry can lead to a large usage of previous vessels in new designs. With the increase in automated tools for concurrent engineering within structural design it is important that these tools can reuse this information while subsequently feeding this to designers. The ability to accurately gather this materials and parts data is also a key component to these tools. This paper therefore aims to develop an architecture made up of neural networks and databases to feed information effectively to the designers based on previous design experience. ER -