ASME Open Journal of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Innovative Materials and Techniques for Enhancing Hydrogen Storage: A Comprehensive Review of Damage Detection and Preventive Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy resource, but an improvement of secure and efficient storage solutions must be developed for its increased use. This review will investigate efforts to improve the storage of ... -
Effect of Fuel Injection Strategies on Performance, Regulated and Unregulated Emissions of a Gasoline Compression Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) mode engines are characterized by partially premixed charge combustion, leading to significant and simultaneous reductions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter emissions. However, ... -
Blockchain Database for Improved Recording of Property Deeds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The current manual process for property deed recording lacks automation, efficiency, and transparency. Real estate transactions require disjointed efforts from multiple parties, and they only become legally binding once ... -
Sound Pressure Slopes of Turbulent and Cavitating Liquids, and a Method to Predict Such Levels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents an author-created, unique method called the ABC method to predict sound pressure of turbulent and cavitating liquids according to ISA Standard 75.17 and is measured 1 m from the outer wall of a downstream ... -
Transient Response Analysis of Nonlinear Oscillators With Fractional Derivative Elements Under Gaussian White Noise Using Complex Fractional Moments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Complex fractional moment (CFM), which is defined as the Mellin transform of a probability density function (PDF), has been successfully employed to find the response PDF of a wide variety of integer-order nonlinear ... -
Application of a Ranque–Hilsch Vortex Flow in an Internal Cooling of a Gas Turbine Engine Blade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The efficiency of a gas turbine engine is directly impacted by the turbine inlet temperature and the corresponding pressure ratio. A major strategy, aside from the use of costly high-temperature blade materials, is increasing ... -
Current Status and Emerging Techniques for Measuring the Dielectric Properties of Biological Tissues
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The dielectric properties of biological tissues are key parameters that support the design and usability of a wide range of electromagnetic-based medical applications, including for diagnostics and therapeutics, and allow ... -
Replacing All Fossil Fuels With Nuclear-Enabled Hydrogen, Cellulosic Hydrocarbon Biofuels, and Dispatchable Electricity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)We describe a roadmap using three sets of technologies to enable base-load nuclear reactors to replace all fossil fuels in a low-carbon world. The technologies integrate nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectricity and biomass ... -
Thermodynamic Analysis of Comprehensive Performance of Carbon Dioxide(R744) and Its Mixture With Ethane(R170) Used in Refrigeration and Heating System at Low Evaporation Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this paper, the system performance of R744 and R744/R170 mixed refrigerants used in a single-stage compression transcritical cycle at low evaporation temperature was studied by simulation method, and the effect of ... -
Effect of Filament Color and Fused Deposition Modeling/Fused Filament Fabrication Process on the Development of Bistability in Switchable Bistable Squares
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Switchable multistable structures (SMS) are additively manufactured metamaterials. SMS are printed in polylactic acid, a shape memory polymer, and pre-strain is stored in bilayers during fused deposition modeling 3D printing ... -
Current Trends and Innovations in Enhancing the Aerodynamic Performance of Small-Scale, Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Wind energy has proven to be one of the most promising resources to meet the challenges of rising clean energy demand and mitigate environmental pollution. The global new installation of wind turbines in 2022 was 77.6 GW, ... -
Frontal Crash Testing of a Class V Lift Truck
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Counterbalanced, center control, high-lift trucks with a sit-down, non-elevating operator position are required to have a restraint system. The restraint system is intended to restrain the operator in the normal operating ... -
Swirl Brake Design for Improved Rotordynamic Vibration Stability Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics System Level Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/25/2023 )The accurate characterization of compressor rotordynamic coefficients during the design phase reduces the risk of subsynchronous vibration problems occurring in the field. Although rotordynamists extensively investigate ... -
Prediction of Laminar Burning Speed of Propane/Hydrogen/Air Mixtures Using Power-Law Correlation and Two Machine Learning Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/18/2023 )Propane (C3H8) and hydrogen (H2) are regarded as alternative fuels that are favorable to the environment. Hydrogen gas's low energy density, storage, and transportation are the main issues with using it as an alternative ... -
Mechanical Characterization of Porcine Tricuspid Valve Anterior Leaflets Over Time: Applications to Ex Vivo Studies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/26/2023 )Mechanical characterization of the ex vivo tricuspid valve (TV) continues to provide key insights into native valve function and the development of valvular diseases. However, experimental methods to characterize TV ... -
Comparison of Operation and Maintenance of Floating 14 MW Turbines and Twin 10 MW Turbines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/18/2023 )Turbine ratings in the past decade have grown unexpectedly fast. In 2021, Siemens Gamesa and GE revealed their new 14 MW turbine models, and it is predicted that this is not yet the rating limit that turbines can reach. ... -
Techno-Economic Investigation of Geothermal Development in Sedimentary Basins
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/18/2023 )Models of the enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) in super-hot igneous rocks have demonstrated significantly higher heat transfer rates and power production compared to conventional geothermal systems. On the other hand, ... -
Real-Time Hybrid Testing of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Using a Surrogate-Based Aerodynamic Emulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 3/16/2023 )Physical modeling of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is challenging due to the complexities associated with the simultaneous application of two different scaling laws, governing the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic ... -
The Importance of Transparency in Regulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/5/2023 1)The annual audit plan of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which was issued in November 2020, included an audit of the NRC’s practice of allowing “drop-in” visits. These ... -
Protective Biology and Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/31/2023 )Protective biology and engineering are an integrated discipline aiming to understand the naturally occurring protective mechanisms established through an evolution in response to environmental insults and genetic defects ...