Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Real-Time Machinability Analysis of Free Form Surfaces on the GPU
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In this paper a new hardware accelerated method is presented to evaluate the machinability of free-form surfaces. This method works on tessellated models that are commonly used by computer aided ... -
Special Issue on Haptics, Tactile and Multimodal Interfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Haptics as a science has matured to provide a viable interface for engineering applications. The haptic interface has been widely adopted as a teaching and training tool. Force feedback technology ... -
Managing Design-Process Complexity: A Value-of-Information Based Approach for Scale and Decision Decoupling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Design-processes for multiscale, multifunctional systems are inherently complex due to the interactions between scales, functional requirements, and the resulting design decisions. While complex ... -
Directional Force Sensation by Asymmetric Oscillation From a Double-Layer Slider-Crank Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)By subjecting a small object in a handheld device to periodic translational motion with asymmetric acceleration (accelerated more rapidly in one direction than in the other), the holder typically ... -
Design for Manufacturing of Sculptured Surfaces: A Computational Platform
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents a computer aided design for machining (DFMc) platform that enables designers to customize the design for the available machine tools and to estimate the effect of design ... -
Continuous Collision and Interference Detection for 3D Geometric Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper describes a new approach to perform continuous collision and interference detection between a pair of arbitrarily complex objects moving according to general three-dimensional affine ... -
Shape Similarity Matching With Octree Representations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)To achieve effective 3D shape retrieval, there is a crucial need for efficient shape matching methods. This paper introduces a new method for 3D shape matching, which uses a simplified octree ... -
Extracting Assembly Mating Graphs for Assembly Variant Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Assembly variant design in agile manufacturing involves modifying components or mixing and matching existing components from valid assemblies to proliferate new variant products. (2001, “ Assembly ... -
Product Development Task Planning Using Worth Flow Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The acceleration of the product development cycle continues to be a significant challenge for manufacturing enterprises around the world. This paper describes a task planning method that minimizes ... -
Interoperability Between PLM and RoHS Compliance Management Based on XML and Smart Client
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Nowadays, more and more companies are going to adapt themselves to restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) compliance and enforcement by leveraging product lifecycle management ... -
Efficient NC Simulation for Multi-Axis Solid Machining With a Universal APT Cutter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In multi-axis machining of dies and molds with complex sculptured surfaces, numerical control (NC) simulation/verification is a must for the avoidance of expensive rework and material waste. ... -
Health Management Allocation During Conceptual System Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) is an evolving technology used to detect, assess, and isolate faults in complex systems to improve safety. At the conceptual design level, system-level ... -
Generating Simplified Trapping Probability Models From Simulation of Optical Tweezers System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents a radial basis function based approach to generate simplified models to estimate the trapping probability in optical trapping experiments using offline simulations. The difference ... -
Design and Operation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure for Commercial Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper describes the concept for and lessons from the development and field-testing of an open, interoperable communications infrastructure to support automated demand response (auto-DR). ... -
Constraints Based Nonrigid Registration for 2D Blade Profile Reconstruction in Reverse Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In reverse engineering, 2D profile curve reconstruction based on cross-sectional points is a very crucial step for surface reconstruction such as lofting surface, swept surface, translational ... -
Wavelet SDF-Reps: Solid Modeling With Volumetric Scans
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper describes a new formulation of solid modeling for treating parts derived from volumetric scans (computed tomography, magnetic resonance, etc.) along with parts from traditional ... -
Algebraic Dimensional Reduction for Microfluidic Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Microfluidic devices exhibit a high-aspect ratio in that their channel-widths are much smaller than their overall lengths. High-aspect geometry leads to an unduly large finite element mesh, making ... -
N-Dimensional Nonuniform Rational B-Splines for Metamodeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBs) have unique properties that make them attractive for engineering metamodeling applications. NURBs are known to accurately model many different continuous curve ... -
A Simplified Systematic Method of Acquiring Design Specifications From Customer Requirements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Faithfully obtaining design specifications from customer requirements is essential for successful designs. The natural lingual, inexact, incomplete, and vague attributes of customer requirements make ... -
Agent-Based Modeling of Mass-Collaborative Product Development Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Mass-collaborative product development refers to a paradigm where large groups of people compete and collaborate globally to develop new products and services. In contrast to the traditional ...