Classification of Topologies of Mechanisms for Circuit Breakers

MARTÍN A. PUCHETA

2011-05-15/2011-08-23

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Mecánica

Prod.Metal.,Maq.y Equ.-Prod.y Maq.Electrica

The enumeration of metamorphic circuit breakers mechanisms separated in the form of four sub-atlases was performed in a previous work starting from specifications and constraints taking into account metamorphic changes. The enumeration algorithm was modified to further efficiently compute classification indexes described in the November 2010 meeting at Milan, Italy. The algorithms for computing the indexes and their physical meanings are described and some examples of their output values are given and illustrated. The purpose of indexing the topological characteristics is to ease the selection of the most promising concepts for a given LVCB application. A database composed by a table with 47 fields stores the values of indexes. This database will help the designer to make queries of mechanisms with different combinations of properties, to explore those designs with properties similar to the existing ones, and finally, to select the most promising designs for dimensional synthesis and detailed design (Informe CIMEC 172 realizado dentro del SAT UNL 537362, Contrato 2009-447-01).