ASME Open Journal of Engineering: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
An Analytical Model for Pitch Moment Stiffness of Bolted Connections and Its Application in Ballscrew Bearing Support Block Selection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Bolted joints are commonly used structural connections as they provide a strong secure joint along with ease of assembly/disassembly. While analytical models for the axial stiffness of bolted joints are well developed, ... -
Design and Characterization of a Flexible Self-Inflating Mechanical Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Inflatable structures are commonly used in a variety of engineering applications such as robotics, space structures, medical devices, and automotive safety devices. However, inflation in these systems often requires a ... -
Approach to Automation of Line Heating by Combination of Reinforcement Learning and Finite Element Method Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In recent years, ship hulls have very complicated shapes in order to reduce frictional resistance and wave resistance during navigation. In particular, in the bow and stern, curved skin plates with complex shapes are used. ... -
Influence of Accident-Tolerant Fuel With Steel Cladding for Sustainable Heat Transfer in the Reactor Core of VVER-1200
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Since the events at the Fukushima–Daiichi nuclear power plant, there has been increased interest in developing accident tolerant fuel (ATF) to avoid accidents for light water reactors where Uranium-Silicide-based fuel has ... -
Multi-Objective Optimization of an Axial Flow Turbine Design Using Surrogate Modeling and Genetic Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A surrogate model-based multi-objective design optimization methodology using a nondominated sorting genetic algorithm is used to maximize the power output and efficiency of an axial flow turbine. A set of high-fidelity ... -
Temperature Regimes and Chemistry for Stabilizing Precipitation Hardening Phases in Al–Sc Alloys: Combined CALPHAD–Deep Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this work, CALPHAD-based calculations provided with data for various stable and metastable phases in 2XXX, 6XXX, and 7XXX classes of aluminum-based alloys. These data were scaled and then used to develop Deep Learning ... -
Product Competition Prediction in Engineering Design Using Graph Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Understanding relationships between different products in a market system and predicting how changes in design impact their market position can be instrumental for companies to create better products. We propose a graph ...