Research of Optimal Structural Design for Mechanical Products Based on Data Mining

Mechanical products normally consist of multi-parameter mechanisms. The uncertain factors resulted from the quantity of parameters and complicity of inter-relations shall give rise to problems of large dimensional arrays. Moreover, optimal models often contain functions of distinctive property, therefore feasible optimal methods are hard to find. On the basis of analyzing the optimal design methods and the data mining principles, a multi-level strategy of overall structural optimal design for mechanical products is put forth to bring out the structural optimal design rules of mechanical products based on the data mining principles which is demonstrated by the optimal structural design of the trolley frame of a gantry crane. The example shows that the data mining technology has fully tackled the issue of the optimal structural design of mechanical products.