Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Improvements in Shear Locking and Spurious Zero Energy Modes Using Chebyshev Finite Element Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this paper, the authors present Chebyshev finite element (CFE) method for the analysis of Reissner–Mindlin (RM) plates and shells. Chebyshev polynomials are a sequence of orthogonal polynomials that are defined recursively. ... -
Efficient Compliant Variation Simulation of Spot-Welded Assemblies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)During product development one important aspect is the geometric robustness of the design. This is due to the fact that all manufacturing processes lead to products with variation. Failing to properly account for the ... -
Conceptual Design of Structures Using an Upper Bound of von Mises Stress
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Optimal layouts for structural design have been generated using topology optimization approach with a wide variety of objectives and constraints. Minimization of compliance is the most common objective but the resultant ... -
A Wearable Device to Detect in Real-Time Bimanual Gestures of Basketball Players During Training Sessions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The paper describes the design of a wearable and wireless system that allows the real-time identification of some gestures performed by basketball players. This system is specifically designed as a support for coaches to ... -
Ontology-Based Representation of Meta-Design in Designing Decision Workflows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Utilizing the enterprise capital related the knowledge of design processes has become crucial to improve enterprise agility and respond to shifts or changes in markets. The complexity and uncertainty of design raise the ... -
An Optimal Parametrization Scheme for Path Generation Using Fourier Descriptors for Four-Bar Mechanism Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Fourier descriptor (FD)-based path synthesis algorithms for generation of planar four-bar mechanisms require assigning time parameter values to the given points along the path. An improper selection of time parameters leads ... -
Convexity and Optimality Conditions for Constrained Least-Squares Fitting of Planes and Parallel Planes to Establish Datums
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper addresses some important theoretical issues for constrained least-squares fitting of planes and parallel planes to a set of points. In particular, it addresses the convexity of the objective function and the ... -
Integrating Topic, Sentiment, and Syntax for Modeling Online Reviews: A Topic Model Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Analyzing product online reviews has drawn much interest in the academic field. In this research, a new probabilistic topic model, called tag sentiment aspect models (TSA), is proposed on the basis of Latent Dirichlet ... -
Review and Comparison of Form Error Simulation Methods for Computer-Aided Tolerancing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Computer-aided tolerancing (CAT) aims to predict and control geometrical and dimensional deviations in the early design stage. Former simulation models based on the translation and rotation of nominal features cannot fulfill ... -
Representation of Graded Materials and Structures to Support Tolerance Specification for Additive Manufacturing Application
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled control over heterogeneous materials and structures in ways that were not previously possible, including functionally graded materials and structures. This paper presents a novel ... -
Optimizing Topology and Gradient Orthotropic Material Properties Under Multiple Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The goal of this research is to optimize an object's macroscopic topology and localized gradient material properties (GMPs) subject to multiple loading conditions simultaneously. The gradient material of each macroscopic ... -
The Effect of Surgical Alignment in Adult Scoliotic Spines on Axial Cyclic Vibration: A Finite Element Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Finite element analysis was used to investigate the responses of five adult degenerative scoliosis (ADS) subjects to cyclic vibration before and after surgical alignment (SA). The dynamic responses of the healthy and ... -
Computer-Aided Inspection Planning: A Multisensor High-Level Inspection Planning Strategy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Computer-aided inspection planning (CAIP) has gained significant research attention in the last years. So far, most CAIP systems have focused on the use of a touch probe mounted on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Kinematic Synthesis of Defect-Free Planar Four-Bar Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Synthesizing circuit-, branch-, or order-defects-free planar four-bar mechanism for the motion generation problem has proven to be a difficult problem. These defects render synthesized mechanisms useless to machine designers. ... -
Ontology-Based Ambiguity Resolution of Manufacturing Text for Formal Rule Extraction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Manufacturing companies maintain manufacturing knowledge primarily as unstructured text. To facilitate formal use of such knowledge, previous efforts have utilized natural language processing (NLP) to classify manufacturing ... -
A Cloud Service Framework for Virtual Try-On of Footwear in Augmented Reality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents an experimental cloud service framework for design evaluation of personalized footwear in augmented reality (AR) via networks. The service allows users to ubiquitously perceive themselves trying on ... -
The Correcting Approach of Gyroscope-Free Inertial Navigation Based on the Applicable Topological Map
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The accumulated error and noise sensitivity are the two common problems of ordinary inertial sensors. An accurate gyroscope is too expensive, which is not normally applicable in low-cost missions of mobile robots. Since ... -
Modeling and Validation of a Web Ontology Language Based Disassembly Planning Information Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Disassembly, a process of separating the end of life (EOL) product into discrete components for re-utilizing their associated residual values, is an important enabler for the sustainable manufacturing. This work focuses ... -
Robust Tolerance Optimization for Internal Combustion Engines Under Parameter and Model Uncertainties Considering Metamodeling Uncertainty From Gaussian Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)As the core component of an automobile, the internal combustion engine (ICE) nowadays is still a typical complex engineering system. Tolerance design for ICEs is of great importance since small changes in the dimensions ... -
Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Haptic Feedback Manipulators in Virtual Cockpit Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)To obtain real-time interactions in the virtual cockpit system (VCS), a real-time trajectory generation method based on dynamical nonlinear optimization and regression prediction for the haptic feedback manipulator (HFM) ...