Abstract: The bill for creating the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) was signed into law by President Truman on May 10, 1950. Accordingly, the NSF is “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, ...

Abstract: Once a paper is submitted to Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD), and after successfully passing an initial screening, it is assigned to one of our AEs, or GEs in the case of a special issue. Subsequently, an AE or GE takes ...

Abstract: As we approach the 200th issue of the Journal in Jun. 2013, it would be timely to provide our readers with an overview of the evolution of the Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). In this editorial, I focus on the early ...

Abstract: Engineering design optimization problems often have two competing objectives as well as uncertainty. For these problems, quite often there is interest in obtaining feasibly robust optimum solutions. Feasibly robust here ...

Abstract: In this paper, a new approach for optimization-based design of nonlinearly mixed discrete-continuous problems has been developed. The approach is based on a two-level decomposition strategy in ...

Abstract: We present a robust optimization method that ensures feasibility of an optimized design when there are uncontrollable variations in design parameters. This method is developed based on the notion ...

Abstract: A strategy for selecting active constraints in a design optimization program is implemented computationally. The strategy uses local monotonicity information to iterate on the active set. A fully ...