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The Mechanical Engineering Department of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) is known as one of the most developed in its area in Brazil. The Department has several areas, among them: Design, Manufacturing, Precision Machining, Fluid Dynamics, Acoustics and Vibration.

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My area is Design Methodology of Mechanical Systems, and my doctorate thesis was the development of an Expert System Prototype for Hydraulic Systems Design focusing on Concurrent Engineering Aspects.

See Thesis Summary. Here is a brief CV.

Associate Member of NFPA- National Fluid Power Association

Fluid Power Net Convernor in Brazil

Artificial Intelligence GENERAL LINKS ON AI	Expert Systems CLIPS WEBSITE	AI in Business
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence Past, Present and Future	American Association for Artificial Intelligence	Artificial Intelligence in  Design

Fluid Power Net International Fluid Power Research Network	Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (LASHIP-EMC-UFSC-BRAZIL)	NFPA National Fluid Power Association
HPN- Hydraulic & Pneumatic Consulting company in US	Fluid Power Society RELATED LINKS IN USA	Hydraulics & Pneumatics MAGAZINE- USA
Fluid Power Simulation IMAGINE- FRANCE	Fluid Power Journal USA	Politecnico di Torino ITALY

Invited Speaker at Total Design Solutions Conference , Cleveland, Ohio, October 2002.
See Conference Preview and talks abtracts here .
The talks presentations are available at:
Expert Systems For Fluid Power and Artificial Intelligence: Application for Maintenance.

Among other aspects, my area of research has resulted in several published papers:

1. Silva, Jonny C.. Expert System Environment for Fluid Power Achievements and Challenges. Presented at IFPE2002- Las Vegas, USA- 19-23 March, 2002.
2. Silva, Jonny C.. Knowledge Management & Fluid Power. 2nd International Workshop on Computer Software for Design, Analysis and Control of Fluid Power Systems Ostrava, Czech Republic 5-7 September 2001.
3. Silva, Jonny C. and Back, Nelson. Shaping the Process of Fluid Power System Design Applying an Expert System. Research in Engineering Design, 2000, 12:8-17.
4. Silva, Jonny C. and Trinkel, Bud. "Fluid Power System Design & Artificial Intelligence - A Revolutionary Approach". Fluid Power Journal, January/February 2000.
5. Silva, Jonny C.. Artificial Intelligence Enhancing Fluid Power System Design. IFPE- International Fluid Power Exposition. Chicago, USA, 4-6 April, 2000.
6. Silva, Jonny C.. Artificial Intelligence Applied to Fluid Power Design- An Integrating Approach.

This work, an overview of my PhD thesis, was chosen to be presented at the World Exposition 2000 in Hannover, as part of the "Shaping the Future" project.
7. Silva, Jonny C.. Concurrent Engineering Perspective of Maintenance Aspects through an Expert System Prototype. Spring Symposium organized by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Stanford University, March 22- 24, 1999. Technical Report SS-99-04, ISBN 1-57735-084-7.
8. Silva, Jonny C.. Cost Estimate in the Design Phase through an Expert System Prototype. 15th Brazilian Congress of Mechanical Engineering, COBEM'99.
9. Silva, Jonny C. and Dawson, David. Expert System for Design-Validation and Expandability Issues. Lancaster International Workshop on Engineering Design. Computer Aided Conceptual Design CACD'98, May 1998.
10. Silva, Jonny C.. A Inteligência Artificial na obtenção de um sistema computacional para projeto de sistemas hidráulicos. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Hidráulica e Pneumática (ABHP) Artigo Técnico, pp 7-10, março/abril 1998.
11. Silva, Jonny C.. Projeto de sistemas hidráulicos numa abordagem de engenharia simultânea. VI Seminário Nacional de Hidráulica e Pneumática, 22 a 25 setembro 1998, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
12. Silva, Jonny C. and Cheung, H.F.. Computer Support Environment Applying Object-Oriented Methods for Hydraulic Systems Design, Lancaster International Workshop on Engineering Design Computer Aided Conceptual Design, CACD'97, 14-15 April,1997.
13. Silva, Jonny C. and Dawson, David. The development of an expert system for hydraulic systems design focusing on Concurrent Engineering Aspects. ICED97, International Conference on Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, 19-21 August 97, Vol. 1, pp 271-276, ISBN 951-722-788-4.
14. Silva, Jonny C. and Dawson, David. Knowledge Acquisition In The Context Of Hydraulic Systems Design- A Case Study. Tenth Bath International Fluid Power Workshop. University of Bath, United Kingdom, 10-12 September 97.
15. Silva, Jonny C.; Bennett, David and Counsell, J. M. Computational Agent to Integrate Expert System and Simulation Language. 9th European Simulation Symposium, Passau, Germany, October 19-23, 1997.
16. Silva, Jonny C. and Dawson, David. Computational Agent to Integrate An Expert System for Design and The Internet. WebNet97 World Conference of the WWW, Internet and Intranet. Oct. 31-Nov. 5, 1997, Toronto, Canada,ISBN 1-880094-27-4.

For more information on the system see KEOHPS.com- Expert System for Fluid Power.

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