Journal of Vibration and Acoustics: Recent submissions

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    • Terrain Adaptive Vehicles 

      K. J. Waldron (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Research on walking vehicles and variable configuration wheeled vehicles is reviewed. The central feature of the vehicles discussed is terrain adaptive capability. The principal elements of the ...

    • Applied Theory of Gearing: State of the Art 

      F. L. Litvin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The contents of the paper cover: a brief history of some concepts of the theory of gearing, and new developments in this area, (i) theory of enveloping curves and surfaces, (ii) simulation ...

    • Optimal Robot Design and Differential Geometry 

      F. C. Park (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      In this article we survey some recent developments in optimal robot design, and collect some of the differential geometric approaches into a general mathematical framework for robot design. The ...

    • Fatigue and Fracture Estimation for Metallic Components: Some Current Methods and Future Developments 

      D. V. Nelson; Sheri D. Sheppard (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Current approaches widely used in fatigue and fracture evaluations of mechanical components are summarized. Metallic alloys, and fatigue and fracture behavior in the absence of environmental effects ...

    • Computer-Aided Mechanism Design: Now and the Future 

      A. G. Erdman (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The current status of computer-aided design of mechanisms is reviewed. The available software is described and several industrial examples are presented to illustrate current trends in the field ...

    • Design of Tendon-Driven Manipulators 

      Lung-Wen Tsai (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This paper presents an overview of the current state-of-the-art in the design of tendon-driven manipulators. A special characteristic associated with tendon-driven manipulators is that tendons can ...

    • The Synthesis of Planar RR and Spatial CC Chains and the Equation of a Triangle 

      J. M. McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This paper formulates the planar and spatial versions of an equation that determines one vertex of a triangle in terms of the other two vertices and their interior angles. The fact that a ...

    • Design of Vehicle Power Transmission Systems 

      J. S. Freeman; S. A. Velinsky (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The power transmission system is a critical component of any machine. Accordingly, the detailed analysis of this system is essential for both design purposes and the detailed assessment of ...

    • Conceptual Developments in Design Components and Machine Elements 

      E. I. Rivin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Many machine elements on the market today have been designed and implemented many decades ago. Some R & D is performed on design optimization. The paper demonstrates directions of conceptual ...

    • Virtual Prototyping Simulation for Design of Mechanical Systems 

      E. J. Haug; J. D. Wargo; K. K. Choi; J. G. Kuhl (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Developments in simulation technology that enable a qualitatively new virtual prototyping approach to design of mechanical systems are summarized and their integration into an engineering design ...

    • Imprecision in Engineering Design 

      E. K. Antonsson; K. N. Otto (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Methods for incorporating imprecision in engineering design decision-making are briefly reviewed and compared. A tutorial is presented on the Method of Imprecision (MoI), a formal method, based ...

    • Optimal Design of Mechanical Engineering Systems 

      P. Y. Papalambros (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The capability of mathematical optimization to support the mechanical design process is finally reaching wide recognition, as evidenced by significant applications in industry. The article reviews ...

    • Solving Polynomial Systems for the Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms and Robot Manipulators 

      M. Raghavan; B. Roth (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Problems in mechanisms analysis and synthesis and robotics lead naturally to systems of polynomial equations. This paper reviews the state of the art in the solution of such systems of equations. ...

    • Decomposition and Representation Methods in Mechanical Design 

      A. Kusiak; N. Larson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The broad interest in concurrent engineering has inspired research in the area of decomposition in mechanical design. Much of the research reported in the literature falls into one of three ...

    • Life-Cycle Engineering Design 

      K. Ishii (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Life-cycle engineering seeks to incorporate various product life-cycle values into the early stages of design. These values include functional performance, manufacturability, serviceability, and ...

    • Robust Mechanical Design Using Engineering Models 

      A. Parkinson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This paper examines how engineering models can be used to develop robust designs—designs that can tolerate variation. Variation is defined in terms of tolerances which bracket the expected ...

    • The Modelling of the Opening and Closure of a Crack 

      O. N. L. Abraham; J. A. Brandon (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The paper presents a method which utilizes substructure normal modes to predict the vibration properties of a cantilever beam with a breathing transverse crack. The two segments of the cantilever ...

    • A Pseudo-Sensor-Output-Feedback Approach for Semi-Active Structural Control 

      Y. S. Kim; K. W. Wang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)

    • Axiomatic Design of Mechanical Systems 

      N. P. Suh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Design is done in many fields. Although the design practices in different fields appear to be distinct from each other, all fields use a common thought process and design principles. Consequently, ...

    • Experimental Study of Flexural Vibration of Wooden Beams by Levinson Beam Theory 

      T. Nakao; C. Tanaka; A. Takahashi; Y. Nishino (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)