Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Novel Design of Wrist With Gripper: Type Synthesis of a 2R1T Parallel Mechanism Possessing One Actuation Degree-of-Freedom
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The parallel mechanism (PM) with a configurable movable platform (CMP) holds the potential for achieving a high-response speed and high-stiffness integrated design of a gripper-wrist system. The motion of two rotations and ... -
Automated Layout Design of Hydraulic Components With Constraints on Flow Channels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The lightweight design of hydraulic equipment has always been of vital interest. Additive manufacturing (AM) technology can meet the manufacturing requirements of heteroideus and lightweight hydraulic equipment. However, ... -
Design and Mechanical Validation of Commercially Viable, Personalized Passive Prosthetic Feet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Current high-performance prosthetic feet work well for many users, but the low resolution of size and stiffness categories may limit walking performance for certain users. A line of prosthetic feet with a high resolution ... -
Local Conjugate Meshing Performance Analysis of an Enveloping Hourglass Worm Drive Based on Medium Gear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Due to the low error sensitivity, the local conjugate enveloping hourglass worm drive based on medium gear is being intensively investigated, and this article examines the local conjugate meshing performance of such a worm ... -
Novel Soft Gripper With Adjustable Performance Based on Blade Flexures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The design of soft grippers is challenging as the target objects to be handled involve a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and softness. Most grippers reported present drawbacks, e.g., complex control strategies for stiffness ... -
Spatial Packaging and Routing Optimization of Complex Interacting Engineered Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Designing the 3D layout of interconnected systems (SPI2), which is a ubiquitous task in engineered systems, is of crucial importance. Intuitively, it can be thought of as the simultaneous placement of (typically rigid) ... -
Extracting Design Rationale in Technical Literature to Provide Inspirational Design Stimuli
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Design rationale (DR) explains why the solution is designed the way it is, and can be used to stimulate creativity and facilitate the development of new solutions in the conceptual design phase. DR was mainly captured by ... -
Error Sensitivity Analysis of a 1T2R Kinematically Redundant Parallel Mechanism With Closed-Loop Chain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this paper, a generalized method for error modeling of the spatial 1T2R three degrees-of-freedom kinematically redundant parallel mechanism with a closed-loop chain is proposed, which is based on the matrix differential ... -
A Harmonic Response Topology Optimization Method Based on Hybrid Cellular Automata
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Hybrid cellular automaton (HCA) method is a topology optimization method with high convergence efficiency. Harmonic response topology optimization problem has been widely researched and common frequency-domain methods have ... -
Multi-Fidelity Design Framework Integrating Compositional Kernels to Facilitate Early-Stage Design Exploration of Complex Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Early-stage design of complex systems is considered by many to be one of the most critical design phases because that is where many of the major decisions are made. The design process typically starts with low-fidelity ... -
Learning Proficient Behavior With Computational Agents in Engineering Configuration Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A novel approach for computational agents to learn proficient behavior in engineering configuration design that is inspired by human learning is introduced in this work. The learning proficient simulated annealing design ... -
Multi-Lattice Topology Optimization Via Generative Lattice Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Additive manufacturing enables the fabrication of multi-lattice structures, an advanced design approach featuring heterogeneous lattices at the mesoscale which are arranged to achieve a diverse and purposeful distribution ... -
Comprehensive Geometric Parameterization and Computationally Efficient 3D Shape Matching Optimization of Realistic Stents
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Flexible and compact shape representation schemes are essential for design optimization problems. Current shape representation schemes for coronary stent designs concern predominantly idealized or independent ring (IR) ... -
Deep Analogical Generative Design and Evaluation: Integration of Stable Diffusion and LoRA
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The rapid evolution of generative design through artificial intelligence has opened new avenues for innovative product styling. Integrating this efficient generative technology with established professional theories presents ... -
A Method for Synthesizing Ontology-Based Textual Design Datasets: Evaluating the Potential of Large Language Model in Domain-Specific Dataset Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In engineering disciplines, leveraging generative language models requires using specialized datasets for training or fine-tuning the preexisting models. Compiling these domain-specific datasets is a complex endeavor, ... -
A Dataset of 3M Single-DOF Planar 4-, 6-, and 8-Bar Linkage Mechanisms With Open and Closed Coupler Curves for Machine Learning-Driven Path Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In recent years, there has been a strong interest in applying machine learning techniques to path synthesis of linkage mechanisms. However, progress has been stymied due to a scarcity of high-quality datasets. In this ... -
Exploring the Manifestation of Design for Manufacturing Heuristics in Students' Early-Stage Engineering Design Concepts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Additive manufacturing (AM) can produce designs in a manner that greatly differs from the methods used in the older, more familiar technologies of traditional manufacturing (TM). As an example, AM's layer-by-layer approach ... -
An Automated Data-Driven Approach for Product Design Strategies to Respond to Market Disruption Following COVID-19
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Online reviews provide a source to identify customer needs. While many studies have analyzed online reviews during the pandemic, it is worth noting that many customer preference studies in this period were not conducted ... -
Designing Connectivity-Guaranteed Porous Metamaterial Units Using Generative Graph Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Designing 3D porous metamaterial units while ensuring complete connectivity of both solid and pore phases presents a significant challenge. This complete connectivity is crucial for manufacturability and structure-fluid ... -
Development and Evaluation of code symm—A Tool to Facilitate Conceptual Design Synthesis of Multistate Mechanical Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A multistate mechanical device (MSMD) can achieve different functions at different operating states by changing its topological structure and the interaction among its elements. To facilitate conceptual design synthesis ...