Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Deep Learning Conceptual Design of Sit-to-Stand Parallel Motion Six-Bar Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The sit-to-stand (STS) motion is a crucial activity in the daily lives of individuals, and its impairment can significantly impact independence and mobility, particularly among disabled individuals. Addressing this challenge ... -
Optimal Design of Assembling Robot Considering Different Limb Topologies and Layouts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A class of 5 degree-of-freedom (DoF) hybrid robots consisting of one translational and two rotational (1T2R) parallel module and 2 T serial module is presented for assembling in the aircraft cabin. The 1T2R parallel modules ... -
Structural Synthesis of Platform Type Manipulators via Connection-Based Adjacency Matrix: Topology Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article focuses on the design procedures of Alizade's direct and Gezgin's inverse structural synthesis methodologies for platform type manipulators. These task-based synthesis procedures include versatile methodologies ... -
A Customer Journey Mapping Approach With Mobile Application
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Customer journey mapping (CJM) is a product and service design method that is widely used by design researchers and practitioners. It tracks the customer’s or user’s interactions with products and services during experiences ... -
Design and Justice: A Scoping Review in Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Our society faces complex social justice challenges, often exacerbated by existing engineered products and technologies. To avoid unintentionally contributing to social injustice, engineering designers play a critical role ... -
Boosting Engineering Optimization With a Novel Recursive Transfer Bifidelity Surrogate Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In the engineering optimization, there often exist the multiple sources of information with different fidelity levels. In general, low-fidelity (LF) information is usually more accessible than high-fidelity (HF) information, ... -
Heuristics for Solver-Aware Systems Architecting: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The crowdsourcing literature has shown that domain experts are not always the best solvers for complex system design problems. Under certain conditions, novices and specialists in adjacent domains can provide novel solutions ... -
Product Design Incorporating Competition Relations: A Network-Based Design Framework Considering Local Dependencies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)System design has been facing the challenges of incorporating complex dependencies between individual entities into design formulations. For example, while the decision-based design framework successfully integrated customer ... -
Fourier-Based Function Generation of Four-Bar Linkages With an Improved Sampling Points Adjustment and Sylvester's Dialytic Elimination Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Four-bar linkages are critical fundamental elements of many mechanical systems, and their design synthesis is often mathematically complicated with iterative numerical solutions. Analytical methods based on Fourier ... -
A Sustainable Product Multi-Platform Planning Model for Assembly and Disassembly Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The development of a product platform is an effective strategy to respond to dynamic market demands, decrease lead time, and delay product differentiation. However, the traditional product platform configuration method ... -
Discrete Structural Design Synthesis: A Hierarchical-Inspired Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach Considering Topological and Parametric Actions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Structural design synthesis considering discrete elements can be formulated as a sequential decision process solved using deep reinforcement learning, as shown in prior work. By modeling structural design synthesis as a ... -
Implications of Context Effects in Consumer Utility Models for Optimal Product Design and Differentiation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Consumer choice models used in optimal product design typically ignore potential context effects by assuming the utility of each product is independent of the attributes of other products in the choice set. We characterize ... -
Data-Driven Global Sensitivity Analysis of Variable Groups for Understanding Complex Physical Interactions in Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In engineering design, global sensitivity analysis (GSA) is used for analyzing the effects of inputs on the system response and is commonly studied with analytical or surrogate models. However, such models fail to capture ... -
Optimizing Engineered Products for Their Social Impacts on Multiple Stakeholders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Engineered products are often optimized based on engineering requirements, user requirements, cost, and performance. This strategy is well suited for most applications, but products designed specifically to improve the ... -
A Literature Review on Stewart–Gough Platform Calibrations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Researchers have studied Stewart–Gough platforms, also known as Gough–Stewart platforms or hexapod platforms extensively for their inherent fine control characteristics. Their studies led to the potential deployment ... -
Design and Analysis of Leaf Beam Single-Translation Constraint Compliant Modules and the Resulting Spherical Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A wire beam is a single-translation constraint along its axial direction. It offers many applications in compliant mechanisms, such as being a transmitting/decoupling element connected to a linear actuator and being a ... -
A Cognitive Approach for Modeling Customer Demand Dynamics for Optimal Product Release Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)As agile processes are increasingly adopted for product design, and as consumer preferences are rapidly evolving with increasing information available from digital media, there is a need for a demand model that can accommodate ... -
A Comparative Study Between the Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion- and First-Order Reliability Method-Based Formulations of Simulation-Based Control Co-Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Reliability-based control co-design (RBCCD) formulations have been developed for the design of stochastic dynamic systems. To address the limitations of their current formulations, and to enable higher-fidelity solutions ... -
Multi-Task Learning for Design Under Uncertainty With Multi-Fidelity Partially Observed Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The assessment of system performance and identification of failure mechanisms in complex engineering systems often requires the use of computation-intensive finite element software or physical experiments, which are both ... -
Bayesian-Optimized Riblet Surface Design for Turbulent Drag Reduction via Design-by-Morphing With Large Eddy Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A computational approach is presented for optimizing new riblet surface designs in turbulent channel flow for drag reduction, utilizing design-by-morphing (DbM), large Eddy simulation (LES), and Bayesian optimization (BO). ...