%0 Journal Article %T Aplicaci¨®n de un algoritmo de reducci¨®n de grafos al M¨¦todo de los Grafos Dicrom¨¢ticos %A Rodr¨ªguez-Puente %A Rafael %A Marrero-Osorio %A Sergio A. %A Lazo-Cort¨¦s %A Manuel S. %J Ingenier£¿-a Mec£¿£¿nica %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article proposes a mechanism for the decomposition of graphs representing mathematical models, in a way that preserves the relations between the vertices of the original graph. for this, we define the equivalence relations and partitions necessary for the application of a graph reduction algorithm to a graph obtained from the application of dichromatic graph method, this method has used in terms of rational design and computational problem solving in mechanical engineering. this proposal is a contribution to the analysis of mathematical models of large dimensions and facilitates the automation of that method. %K graph reduction %K rational design %K dichromatic graphs method %K computational problem solving. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1815-59442012000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en