"conceptual apparatus" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the mental or theoretical framework of a topic or issue. For example, "A good understanding of the conceptual apparatus of physics is necessary for performing calculations."
Unfortunately, that makes their conceptual apparatus largely inappropriate for other fields of aesthetics, including engineering aesthetics.
These long letters, unfinished and unmailed, are sendups of an intellectual's effort to understand human behavior by means of the conceptual apparatus of Mortimer Adler's Great Books.
Using a conceptual apparatus anchored in the work of Erving Goffman, I argue that calculation is situational action.
The rapid development of design technology in the field of architecture, engineering and construction leads to the continuous adaptation of the conceptual apparatus for building information modelling (BIM).
Weather derivatives are located amongst the hybrid collective that is contemporary finance and are analysed through the conceptual apparatus afforded by a cultural economy approach to finance.
The next chapters develop the naturalistic story of the development of science to take account of how our conceptual apparatus is enhanced so that we can view the world as containing re-identifiable objects.
If A and A′ are two conceptual apparatuses, they are either identical or mutually non-translatable.
Indeed, the whole of the philosophy of engineering design, with all its conceptual questions and apparatus, for example as outlined in Kroes (2012), has yet to be applied to computational artifacts.
A new picture of stability will emerge from the study of the cognitive and ecological dimensions in economic systems, grounded in the conceptual and methodological apparatus provided by the inverse problem theory.
We present a conceptual design of the apparatus and its performance.
The multi-scale methodology has been used as a conceptual tool in devising an apparatus for continuous processing of ultra-fine particles in the fluidized state.
