Modeling of Processing Machines Using Elementary Steps

1 Modeling of Processing Machines using Elementary Steps, 447 

1 MODELING OF PROCESSING MACHINES USING ELEMENTARY STEPS 

2 that we can synthesize new machines by systematically and rationally recombining the building blocks in imaginative ways. 

In this chapter and in Chapter 10, we synthesize or design prototype polymer processing machines using these elementary steps and building blocks. The uniqueness of each prototype machine is determined by the building blocks of the machine itself, and the particular combination of elementary steps and elementary-step mechanisms utilized to create it. 

However, once we have conceptually designed the prototype machine, which involves selecting the elementary steps and the particular mechanisms we wish to use, and describing them in terms of mathematical subsystem models, we can assemble them into a comprehensive mathematical model of the whole machine and proceed through simulation to design-specific machines for given sets of requirements.1 

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