ASME Open Journal of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Exploring a Variant of PTC 42013 for RealTime Performance Monitoring of Fossil Fuel Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper describes a realtime performancemonitoring method based on PTC 42013 that was developed for determining and reporting the annual heat rate for fossil fuel power plants. Unlike for the PTC 4 test, the coal ... -
A Numerical Study on MicrogapBased Focal Brain Cooling Device to Mitigate Hotspot for the Treatment of Epileptic Seizure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by abnormally excessive and synchronized brain cell activities causing seizures. For proper functioning of the brain, epilepsy should be diagnosed with ... -
Hexagonal Twist Origami Pattern for Deployable Space Arrays
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The hexagonal twist origami pattern has characteristics that made it a candidate for nextgeneration deployable space arrays. It has a deployed area that is up to 3.3 times larger than the stowed area, has a singledegreeoffreedom ... -
Modeling the Dynamics of an American Football and the Stability Due to Spin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper develops a mathematical model describing the motion through the air of an American football. The model is based on established equations used to describe spinning projectiles. While the equations are applicable ... -
Progress of Additive Manufacturing Technology and Its Medical Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as threedimensional (3D) printing, is a disruptive technology that is revolutionizing many industries. It is gaining considerable attention, particularly in the medical field as it ... -
Storage-Coupled Nuclear Combined Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A new design paradigm for nuclear power plants is needed to complement the increasing adoption of low marginal cost variable renewable energy resources. The situation is reflected in the wholesale electricity price–duration ... -
Minimum Quantity Cutting Fluid Application for Grinding Weld Flash: Surface Integrity Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The effect of the grinding process for weld flash removal on the surface integrity of the welded joint has not been researched. The surface integrity of the welded joint is essential for the bandsaw blade life and to prevent ... -
Duel Solutions in Hiemenz Flow of an Electro-Conductive Viscous Nanofluid Containing Elliptic Single-/Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes With Magnetic Induction Effects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Modern magnetic nanomaterials are increasingly embracing new technologies including smart coatings, intelligent lubricants, and functional working fluids in energy systems. Motivated by studying the manufacturing magnetofluid ... -
Modeling Three-Dimensional-Printed Polymer Lattice Metamaterial Recovery After Cyclic Large Deformation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Lattice structure metamaterials generally exhibit better stiffness and/or tunable properties than natural materials. They have important applications in mechatronics and tissue engineering areas. In this work, we demonstrate ... -
On Topological Data Analysis for Structural Dynamics: An Introduction to Persistent Homology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Topological methods can provide a way of proposing new metrics and methods of scrutinizing data, that otherwise may be overlooked. A method of quantifying the shape of data, via a topic called topological data analysis ... -
Machine Learning the Concrete Compressive Strength From Mixture Proportions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Concrete mixture design usually requires labor-intensive and time-consuming work, which involves a significant amount of “trial batching” approaches. Recently, statistical and machine learning methods have demonstrated ... -
Comparison of the Acoustic Performance of Wooden Violins and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Violins Through a Modal Study by Finite Elements Method and Effective Masses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Even though string musical instruments made of synthetic materials such as carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) have respected acoustic performance, but a short manufacturing cycle and low product cost, they do not become ... -
Design, Development, and Validation of a Whole-Body Vibration Measurement Device
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Measurements of whole-body vibration are fundamental to access and evaluate comfort levels and possible injury development in the human being. International standards such as ISO 2631 and ISO 10326 are dedicated to the ... -
Hybrid Positioning Approach for Context-Aware Indoor Navigation of Visually Impaired People
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Indoor localization for visually impaired persons is an open research problem, and individual localization approaches have failed to provide accurate results in the literature. Therefore, this paper presents a context-aware ... -
Viscous Dissipation and Joule Heating Effects on 3D Magnetohydrodynamics Flow of Williamson Nanofluid in a Porous Medium Over a Stretching Surface With Melting Condition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The aim of the current article is to demonstrate heat transfer characteristics of Williamson nanofluid flow through a stretching surface with a porous medium in two lateral directions. Heat generation, nonlinear thermal ... -
Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds Onto Biomass-Derived Activated Carbons: Experimental Measurement and Comparison
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a class of hazardous gaseous materials emitted from certain solids or liquids. They are thought to possess serious short- or long-term adverse effects on human health. Nowadays, an ... -
An Analysis of Transient Response Moments of a Linear System Subjected to Non-Gaussian Random Excitation Using Higher-Order Autocorrelation Functions of Excitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)We present the analytical solutions of the second-, third-, and fourth-order response moments of a single-degree-of-freedom linear system subjected to a class of non-Gaussian random excitation. The non-Gaussian excitation ... -
Automatically Landing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Perspective-n-Point Algorithm Based on Known Runway Image: Area Localization and Feature Enhancement With Time Consumption Reduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This research proposes a method to track a known runway image to land an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) automatically by finding a perspective transform between the known image and an input image in real-time. Apparently, ... -
Large Amplitude Free and Forced Vibrations of Functionally Graded Timoshenko Beams Using Coupled Displacement Field Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The large amplitude vibrations of functionally graded (FG) beams consisting of metal rich layers at the bottom, ceramic rich layers at the top, and a concentrated mass at the mid-span have been studied using coupled ... -
A Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation Comparing the Performance of an Alternative Valvetrain Design Against a Traditional Poppet Valvetrain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The poppet valve is by far the most widely used in cylinder head design of internal combustion (IC) engines; however, poppet valves themselves create significant flow restrictions during both the intake and exhaust strokes, ...