Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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An Improved Envelope Method for Time-Dependent Mechanism Reliability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The time-dependent kinematic reliability of a mechanism is the probability that the motion error of the mechanism is less than a prespecified error tolerance for a given period of time. For the time-dependent kinematic ... -
Repurposing as a Decommissioning Strategy for Complex Systems: A Systematic Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Managing the waste of decommissioned complex systems (e.g., aircraft and wind turbines) is a growing issue. In this review, we investigate repurposing as a potential solution. The objectives are to identify strategies that ... -
Trust, Workload, and Performance in Human–Artificial Intelligence Partnering: The Role of Artificial Intelligence Attributes in Solving Classification Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Intelligent systems have been rapidly evolving and play a pivotal role in assisting individuals across diverse domains, from healthcare to transportation. Understanding the dynamics of human–artificial intelligence (AI) ... -
Exploring Time and Power Requirement Trade-Offs in an Additive Manufacturing-Disrupted Production Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The introduction of additive manufacturing (AM) into modern production environments has provided new capabilities; however, these capabilities have disrupted manufacturing cells. The disruption of manufacturing through the ... -
A Novel Connectivity Index for Microstructures Imperfection Detection and Rectification in a Multiscale Structure Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Inspired by natural designs, microstructures exhibit remarkable properties, which drive interest in creating metamaterials with extraordinary traits. However, imperfections within microstructures and poor connectivity at ... -
Looking Beyond Self-Reported Cognitive Load: Comparing Pupil Diameter Against Self-Reported Cognitive Load in Design Tasks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)As designers experience greater mental demands from the increased complexity of new design tools and methods, it is important to understand designers' cognitive load when performing design tasks. Several researchers have ... -
MSEval: A Dataset for Material Selection in Conceptual Design to Evaluate Algorithmic Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Material selection plays a pivotal role in many industries, from manufacturing to construction. Material selection is usually carried out after several cycles of conceptual design, during which designers iteratively refine ... -
Importance-Induced Customer Segmentation Using Explainable Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Customer segmentation plays a critical role in enhancing a company’s product penetration rate in the market. It enables numerous downstream applications such as customer-oriented product development and trend analysis. ... -
Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of Composite Lattice Orthoses With Enhanced Structural Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Orthoses play a critical role in rehabilitation by providing fracture stabilization, external load protection, and deformity correction. Traditional methods of orthotic manufacturing often result in increased bulkiness and ... -
A Single-Loop Method for Time-Variant Reliability Sensitivity Analysis of Motion Mechanisms Using Bayes’ Theorem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Time-variant reliability sensitivity (TRS) analysis can measure the effect of input factors on the structure/mechanism failure. The traditional method for TRS analysis employs a nested sampling procedure, with computational ... -
Design and Optimization of a Cable-Driven Parallel Polishing Robot With Kinematic Error Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article presents the design and optimization of a cable-driven parallel polishing robot (CDPPR) with kinematic error modeling and introduces an improved nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) for ... -
Top-Down Hierarchical Construction and Application of a Domain Knowledge Graph Based on Multimodal Design Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Market demands for diversified and personalized customer needs drive the need for continuous high-speed iteration of products. Among them, product conceptual design is the core process for meeting consumer needs and ... -
StepIdeator: Utilizing Mixed Representations to Support Step-By-Step Design With Generative Artificial Intelligence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In the product conceptual design, designers utilize multiple design representations to ideate, externalize, and refine concepts iteratively. Mixed representations, defined as the simultaneous presentation of multiple ... -
Fusion of Multiple Data Sources for Vehicle Crashworthiness Prediction Using CycleGAN and Temporal Convolutional Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Computer-aided engineering (CAE) models play a pivotal role in predicting crashworthiness of vehicle designs. While CAE models continue to advance in fidelity and accuracy, an inherent discrepancy between CAE model predictions ... -
DeepJEB: 3D Deep Learning-Based Synthetic Jet Engine Bracket Dataset
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have impacted various fields, including mechanical engineering. However, the development of diverse, high-quality datasets for structural analysis remains a challenge. ... -
Multi-Split Configuration Design for Fluid-Based Thermal Management Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)High power density systems require efficient cooling to maintain their thermal performance. Despite this, as systems get larger and more complex, human expertise and insight may not suffice to determine the desired thermal ... -
Customer Segmentation and Need Analysis Based on Sentiment Network of Online Reviewers and Graph Embedding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Customer segmentation divides customers into groups with different characteristics and supports the design of customized products and tailored marketing strategies. Recent studies explore using online reviews as the data ... -
A Cost-Aware Multi-Agent System for Black-Box Design Space Exploration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Effective coordination of design teams must account for the influence of costs incurred while searching for the best design solutions. This article introduces a cost-aware multi-agent system (MAS), a theoretical model to ... -
A Visual Representation of Engineering Catalogs Using Variational Autoencoders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Catalogs have been used for over a century for designing engineering systems. While catalogs are excellent repositories of engineering information, they are difficult to navigate and visualize, specifically to spot clusters, ... -
Design and Evaluation of Three-Phalange Underactuated Adaptive LSDH Finger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The design of the terminal operation tool of the in-orbit service of the space station faces the difficult problem of complicated operation in a small space. Anthropomorphic hand tools operation has long been a controversial ...