Robust Design links & references

Robust Design

Links to good reads, videos and more

Inspiration for good article, youtube videos and more.

Robust Design: Youtube references

A collection of cool Youtube videos and channels which is affiliated in robust design context

The FACTs of Mechanical Design

Professor Jonathan Hopkins (University of California, Los Angeles) Youtube channel about compliant mechanisms.

Link to the FACTs of Mechanical Design @ Youtube

Link to Flexible Research Group's website

BYU CMR

Brigham Young University Compliant Mechanism Research groups Youtube channel. Compliant mechanism examples.

Link to the BYU CMR channel

Munro Live

Munro & Associates review cars and modules and gives insights - especially to the automotive industry. Their review approach is very much based on buying a product and then tearing it apart with focus on how good engineering can benefit the product. Some Robust Design aspects are used (maybe unconsciously?).

Link to Munro Live @ Youtube

Link to Munro & Associates website

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PTC Creo - tips & tricks

David R. Martin II's Youtube channel with Creo tutorials - from basic to advanced features. If you need Creo support - you can probably find a guide here.

Link to Creo parametric @ Youtube

Compliant mechanisms

For design of mechanical joints and degrees of freedom by flexibility

Brigham Young University Compliant Mechanism Research

Brigham Young University's Department of Mechanical Engineering's website. Great introduction to compliant mechanisms - publications, illustrations, examples and videos.

Link to BYU CMRs website

Sustainability

For basic information about sustainability

Science Based Targets

Lookup and see which companies who have set CO2 emission reduction goals and committed to targets for reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Link to ScienceBasedTargets.org

Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is a framework for businesses, governments, and other entities to measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions. It is one of the world’s most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards.

Link to GHGprotocol.org

Material-smart

Materialsmart.info by Polykemi (Rondo) is a great tool for indicative CO2 reductions by material substitution. Rondo is a provider of recycled materials with great transparency: great track record of their supply chain and footprint together with online available datasheets.

Link to materialsmart.info

Academia

Links to relevant sites and universities

DTU - Technical University of Denmark: Robust Design

Link to DTU's Robust Design research site.

Link to DTU - Robust Design

ETH Zürich - selectively compliant structures for camber morphing wings

Dr. Dominic Keidel's (RD8) doctoral thesis about compliant design of morphing wings for aircrafts.

Direct link to ETH download site