functional design
31Design patent — US design patent D48,160 for the original Coca Cola bottle. In the United States, a design patent is a patent granted on the ornamental design of a functional item. Design patents are a type of industrial design right. Ornamental designs of… …
32Design speed — The design speed is a tool used to determine geometric features of a new road during road design. The design speed chosen for a highway is a major factor in choosing superelevation rates and radii of curves, sight distance, and the lengths of… …
33Design for manufacturability (IC) — For a general explanation outside the integrated circuit topic, see Design for manufacturability (disambiguation). Achieving high yielding designs in the state of the art, VLSI technology has become an extremely challenging task due to the… …
34Design review — This article is about the general concept of design reviews. For Design Reviews in DoD and NASA, see Design review (US Government). A design review is a milestone within a product development process whereby a design is evaluated against its… …
35Functional flow block diagram — The Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD) is a multi tier, time sequenced, step by step flow diagram of the system’s functional flow. [The first version of this article is completely based on the [http://www.faa.gov/about/office org/headquarters… …
36Functional — Generally, functional refers to something able to fulfill its purpose or function.*Functional form and functionalism (architecture) apply to architectural design. *Functional (mathematics) is a term applied to certain scalar valued functions in… …
37Functional requirements — In software engineering, a functional requirement defines a function of a software system or its component. A function is described as a set of inputs, the behavior, and outputs (see also ). Functional requirements may be calculations, technical… …
38Design knowledge — There is a large body of knowledge that designers call upon and use during the design process to match the ever increasing complexity of design problems.[1] Design knowledge can be classified into two categories [2]: product knowledge and design… …
39Design paradigm — The term Design paradigm derives from the rather ambiguous idea of paradigm originating in Sociology of Science, which carries at least two main meanings: As models, archetypes, or quintessential examples of solutions to problems. A paradigmatic… …
40Design basis accident — A design basis accident (DBA) or maximum credible accident (MCA)[1] is a postulated accident that a nuclear facility must be designed and built to withstand without loss to the systems, structures, and components necessary to assure public health …
