Journal of Mechanical Design
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EISSN:2379-0407|ISSN:1050-0472|Disc:The Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) serves the broad design community as the venue for scholarly, archival research in all aspects of the design activity with emphasis on design synthesis. JMD has traditionally served the ASME Design Engineering Division and its technical committees, but it welcomes contributions from all areas of design with emphasis on synthesis. JMD communicates original contributions, primarily in the form of research articles of considerable depth, but also technical briefs, design innovation papers, book reviews, and editorials|Priority:12|Publisher:American Society of Mechanical Engineers|
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A Multi-Layer Parallelogram Flexure Architecture for Higher Out-of-Plane Load Bearing Stiffness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Parallelogram flexure mechanism (PFM) is a common flexure module that is widely used as a building block in the design and manufacturing of flexure-based XY motion stages that provide in-plane degrees-of-freedom (DoFs). ... -
Optimizing Design for Repairability: A Game Theoretic Approach for Incorporating Market Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This article investigates the design decision facing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in determining the optimal degree of repairability by considering market dynamics. The article develops a game-theoretic model ... -
Research on Optimizing the Propagation Path Search of Individualized Products With Multi-Source Design Changes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The individualization and diversification of customer requirements are gradually affecting the product design and manufacturing process, and the production mode of enterprises is evolving toward customer-oriented mass ... -
Technology Interventions in Rural India by an Academic Institute: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Industries often prioritize markets with high sales volumes and profit margins, showing little interest in developing technologies for low-income communities where demand and purchasing power are both low. More often, ... -
Representation Learning for Sequential Volumetric Design Tasks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Volumetric design, also called massing design, is the first and critical step in professional building design, which is sequential in nature. As the volumetric design process requires careful design decisions and iterative ... -
A Dataset Generation Framework for Symmetry-Induced Mechanical Metamaterials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The surge in machine learning research and recent advancements in 3D printing technologies have significantly enriched materials science and engineering, particularly in the domain of mechanical metamaterials, which commonly ... -
Topology-Agnostic Graph U-Nets for Scalar Field Prediction on Unstructured Meshes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Machine-learned surrogate models to accelerate lengthy computer simulations are becoming increasingly important as engineers look to streamline the product design cycle. In many cases, these approaches offer the ability ... -
Large Language Models for Predicting Empathic Accuracy Between a Designer and a User
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Empathic design research aims to gain deep and accurate user understanding. We can measure the designer's empathic ability as empathic accuracy (EA) in understanding the user's thoughts and feelings during an interview. ... -
NURBS-OT: An Advanced Model for Generative Curve Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents NURBS-OT (non-uniform rational B-splines—optimal transport), a new approach in the field of computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) for modeling complex ... -
Computational Design of Additively Manufactured Curvilinear Scaffolds for Bone Repair With Analytical Sensitivities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work introduces a computational method for designing ceramic scaffolds fabricated via direct ink writing (DIW) for maximum bone growth, whereby the deposited rods are curvilinear. A mechanobiological model of bone ... -
A Repurposable Attribute Basis for Identifying Repurposing Opportunities in Decommissioned Products
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Repurposing is a decommissioning strategy that enables multiple life cycles for a product or its components. However, repurposing is challenging since it requires finding an alternative use for an existing product. Therefore, ... -
Multi-Objective Counterfactuals for Design: A Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Search Method for Multi-Modal Design Modifications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Designers may often ask themselves how to adjust their design concepts to achieve demanding functional goals. To answer such questions, designers must often consider counterfactuals, weighing design alternatives, and their ... -
Feeling the Distance: Exploring Novice Student Designers' Perceptions of the Psychological Distance and Empathic Response Toward Variations of a Sustainable Design Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Prior research suggests novice designers find it challenging to integrate social context into the engineering design process. This challenge could be particularly pronounced in sustainable design tasks because the effects ... -
Reading Users' Minds With Large Language Models: Mental Inference for Artificial Empathy in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In human-centered design, developing a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of user experiences—empathic understanding—is paramount for designing products that truly meet human needs. Nevertheless, accurately comprehending ... -
Bi-Level Interturn Short-Circuit Fault Monitoring for Wind Turbine Generators With Benchmark Dataset Development
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Flourished wind energy market pushes the latest wind turbines (WTs) to further and harsher inland and offshore environment. Increased operation and maintenance cost calls for more reliable and cost effective condition ... -
Data-Efficient Dimensionality Reduction and Surrogate Modeling of High-Dimensional Stress Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Tensor datatypes representing field variables like stress, displacement, velocity, etc., have increasingly become a common occurrence in data-driven modeling and analysis of simulations. Numerous methods [such as convolutional ... -
Mean Squared Error May Lead You Astray When Optimizing Your Inverse Design Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)When performing time-intensive optimization tasks, such as those in topology or shape optimization, researchers have turned to machine-learned inverse design (ID) methods—i.e., predicting the optimized geometry from input ... -
Robust Design for Product Adaptation Considering Changes in Configurations and Parameters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Adaptable products are designed such that their configurations and parameters can be changed easily in the operation stage to satisfy changes in functional requirements. Design of adaptable products can extend lifespans ... -
Print-N-Grip: A Disposable, Compliant, Scalable, and One-Shot 3D-Printed Multifingered Robotic Hand
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Robotic hands are an important tool for replacing humans in handling toxic or radioactive materials. However, these are usually highly expensive, and in many cases, once they are contaminated, they cannot be re-used. Some ... -
Three-Dimensional Multi-Morphology TPMS-Based Microchannel Design Method for Conformal Cooling in Injection Molding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) possesses diverse morphological characteristics, such as pore sizes, porosity, and structural types. Integrating TPMS-based microchannels into micro-cellular cooling structures is ...