Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Special Issue Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the ASME CIE Division 

      Jami J. Shah; David E. Lee (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      We are pleased to bring out this special issue of JCISE to provide both a retrospective and a snapshot of key areas in computing and information science as they relate to electro-mechanical ...

    • Constraint-Based Computer-Aided Design 

      Christoph M. Hoffmann (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      Computer-aided design (CAD) systems have become parametric, basing shape design on constraints and design feature operations. We review the development of constraint-based parametric CAD, explaining ...

    • A Framework for Computational Design Synthesis: Model and Applications 

      Jonathan Cagan; Matthew I. Campbell; Susan Finger; Tetsuo Tomiyama (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The field of computational design synthesis has been an active area of research for almost half a century. Research advances in this field have increased the sophistication and complexity of ...

    • Full Bicycle Dynamic Model for Interactive Bicycle Simulator 

      Qichang He; Xiumin Fan; Dengzhe Ma (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      An interactive bicycle simulator with six degrees of freedom motion system could bring the rider a very realistic riding feeling. An important component of the simulator is the full bicycle ...

    • Efficient Handling of Implicit Entities in Reduced Mesh Representations 

      Waldemar Celes; Glaucio H. Paulino; Rodrigo Espinha (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      State-of-the-art numerical analyses require mesh representation with a data structure that provides topological information. Due to the increasing size of the meshes currently used for simulating ...

    • The CAD/CAM Interface: A 25-Year Retrospective 

      J. Corney; C. Hayes; V. Sundararajan; P. Wright (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The vision of fully automated manufacturing processes was conceived when computers were first used to control industrial equipment. But realizing this goal has not been easy; the difficulties ...

    • Modeling and Simulation of Multiphysics Systems 

      John G. Michopoulos; Charbel Farhat; Jacob Fish (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      A survey on the evolution of modeling and simulation (M&S) technologies related to multiphysics systems is presented. The concept of a context space for M&S is defined in terms of ...

    • Inverse Pre-deformation of Finite Element Mesh for Large Deformation Analysis 

      Arbtip Dheeravongkit; Kenji Shimada (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The process of finite element analysis that deals with large deformation often produces distorted elements in the later stages of the analysis. These distorted elements lead to analysis problems, ...

    • Extension of a Mesh Quality Metric for Elements With a Curved Boundary Edge or Surface 

      Larisa Branets; Graham F. Carey (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The formulation of a local cell quality metric [, and , 2003, Proceedings of the 12th International Meshing Roundtable, Santa Fe, NM, pp. 371–378;Engineering with Computers (in press)] for ...

    • MRI Guided 3D Mesh Generation and Registration for Biological Modeling 

      James Qingyang Zhang; Donna M. Meyer; John M. Sullivan; Hamid Ghadyani (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      An accurate three-dimensional (3D) mesh of biological models is fundamental for analysis and treatment simulations. Generally noninvasive magnetic resonance image (MRI) data are taken as the input ...

    • A Fuzzy Logic Knowledge-Based Approach for Finite Element Mesh Generation and Analysis 

      W. Kwok; K. Haghighi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      A fuzzy logic knowledge-based approach, FUZZYMESH , for finite element mesh generation and analysis is presented. The proposed approach initiates the adaptive process with a high quality initial ...

    • Optimal Boundary Triangulations of an Interpolating Ruled Surface 

      Charlie C. Wang; Kai Tang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      We investigate how to define a triangulated ruled surface interpolating two polygonal directrices that will meet a variety of optimization objectives which originate from many CAD/CAM and geometric ...

    • Conformal Refinement and Coarsening of Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes 

      Steven E. Benzley; Michael Borden; Steven J. Owen; Nathan J. Harris; Michael Scott (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This paper describes recently developed procedures for local conformal refinement and coarsening of all-hexahedral unstructured meshes. Both refinement and coarsening procedures take advantage of ...

    • Communication-Free Streaming Mesh Refinement 

      Philippe P. Pébay; David Thompson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This article presents a technique for the adaptive refinement of tetrahedral meshes. What makes this method new is that no neighbor information is required for the refined mesh to be compatible ...

    • New Spectral Decomposition Method for Three-Dimensional Shape Models and Its Applications 

      Kohei Murotani; Kokichi Sugihara (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This paper presents a generalization of a data analysis technique called a singular spectrum analysis (SSA). The original SSA is a tool for analyzing one-dimensional data such as time series, ...

    • High-Quality and Property Controlled Finite Element Mesh Generation From Triangular Meshes using the Multiresolution Technique 

      Hiroaki Date; Ichiro Nishigaki; Takayuki Dohi; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      In this paper, we propose a new triangular finite element mesh generation scheme from various kinds of triangular meshes using the multiresolution technique. The proposed scheme consists of two ...

    • Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms 

      Mehmed Kantardzie; ASHOK N. SRIVASTAVA (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms,. IEEE Press, New York, NY, 2003, 360pp., $74.95, ISBN: 0-471-22852-4

    • Special Issue on Mesh-Based Geometric Data Processing 

      Kenji Shimada; Mark Shephard (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This special issue on Mesh-Based Geometric Data Processing consists of 10 papers selected from 27 submissions. Although covering quite diverse technical issues, these 10 papers share a common ...

    • A CAD Template Approach to Support Web-Based Customer Centric Product Design 

      Zahed Siddique; Karunakar Boddu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      In order to provide products that can be tailored to the need of the customer, it is necessary to integrate the customer into the design process. In this paper we present a mass customization ...

    • ADRIAN: A Software for Computing the Stiffness of Automotive Joints and its Application in the Product Development Process 

      Nicklas Bylund (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The development of complex mechanical structures such as a car body is an iterative process, alternating between design and analysis. Traditionally, these are made in different departments, making ...