Advances In Design Automation 1989 Computer Aided And Computational Design

In the area of computer-integrated manufacturing, concurrent engineering is recognized as the manufacturing philosophy for the next decade.

In the competitive business arena organizations must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage. Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are now the industry standard, in all major industries. The seven volumes in Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing: Systems Techniques, and Manufacturing provide a comprehensive treatment of the techniques and applications of CAD, CAE, and CAM.

This collection of ideas and results on topics of curve and surface design is intended for research in the academic environment as well as for practical use in industrial applications. Main emphasis is on minimal energy splines and geometric spline curves, and on techniques beyond tensor product surfaces.