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    • Additive Manufacturing to Advance Functional Design: An Application in the Medical Field 

      Comotti, Claudio; Regazzoni, Daniele; Rizzi, Caterina; Vitali, Andrea (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      The improvement and the massive diffusion of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have fostered the research of design methods to exploit at best the feature introduced by these solutions. The whole design paradigm needs ...
    • A Design for Additive Manufacturing Ontology 

      Dinar, Mahmoud; Rosen, David W. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) gives designers new freedoms to create complex geometries and combine parts into one. However, it has its own limitations, and more importantly, requires a shift in thinking from ...
    • An Ontology for Reusable and Executable Decision Templates 

      Ming, Zhenjun; Wang, Guoxin; Yan, Yan; Dal Santo, Joseph; Allen, Janet K.; Mistree, Farrokh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Engineering design is increasingly recognized as a decision making process. Providing decision support is crucial to augment designers' decision-making capability in this process. In this paper, we present a template-based ...
    • A Multi-User Computer-Aided Design Competition: Experimental Findings and Analysis of Team-Member Dynamics 

      Stone, Brett; Salmon, John; Eves, Keenan; Killian, Matthew; Wright, Landon; Oldroyd, Jordan; Gorrell, Steve; Richey, Michael C. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      A competition for teams of three students using a prototype multi-user computer-aided design (MUCAD) tool was held to investigate various hypotheses regarding the performance of teams in such a setting. By comparing models ...
    • Using Category Theory to Facilitate Multiple Manufacturing Service Database Integration 

      Wisnesky, Ryan; Breiner, Spencer; Jones, Albert; Spivak, David I.; Subrahmanian, Eswaran (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      The goal of this paper is to illustrate the use of category theory (CT) as a basis for the integration of manufacturing service databases. In this paper, we use as our reference prior work by Kulvatunyou et al. (2013, “An ...
    • A Human-Centered Design of Electric Wheelchair Controller With Dual Control Access for Both Drivers of Disabled People and Caregiver 

      Ma, Kuang; Qi, Ziming (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      This paper presents a design process of a novel electric wheelchair controller to enable a dual control access for both the users in the wheelchair and their caregivers. This design applied human-centered design frameworks, ...
    • Energy-Aware Material Selection for Product With Multicomponent Under Cloud Environment 

      Bi, Luning; Zuo, Ying; Tao, Fei; Liao, T. W.; Liu, Zhuqing (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Energy consumption in manufacturing has risen to be a global concern. Material selection in the product design phase is of great significance to energy conservation and emission reduction. However, because of the limitation ...
    • FEAsy: A Sketch-Based Tool for Finite Element Analysis 

      Murugappan, Sundar; Piya, Cecil; Yang, Maria C.; Ramani, Karthik (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Freehand sketching is an integral part of early design process. Recent years have seen an increased interest in supporting sketching in computer-based design systems. In this paper, we present finite element analysis made ...
    • Quad Pillars and Delta Pillars: Algorithms for Converting Dexel Models to Polyhedral Models 

      Inui, Masatomo; Umezu, Nobuyuki (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      In the geometric simulation of multi-axis milling, a dexel representation solid model is frequently used. In this modeling method, the object shape is defined as a collection of vertical segments (dexels) based on a ...
    • Mass Customization: Reuse of Digital Slicing for Additive Manufacturing 

      Kwok, Tsz-Ho; Ye, Hang; Chen, Yong; Zhou, Chi; Xu, Wenyao (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, enables production of complex customized shapes without requiring specialized tooling and fixture, and mass customization can then be realized with ...
    • Optimizing Energy Consumption in a Decentralized Manufacturing System 

      Ilsen, Rebecca; Meissner, Hermann; Aurich, Jan C. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      The deployment of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) within manufacturing systems leads to the creation of so-called cyber-physical production systems that consist of intelligent interconnected production ...
    • Simulation of Laser-Induced Controlled Fracturing Utilizing a Phase Field Model 

      Schlüter, Alexander; Kuhn, Charlotte; Müller, Ralf (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      This work presents an approach to simulate laser cutting of ceramic substrates utilizing a phase field model for brittle fracture. To start with, the necessary thermoelastic extension of the original phase field model is ...
    • User-Guided Visual Analysis of Cyber-Physical Production Systems 

      Post, Tobias; Ilsen, Rebecca; Hamann, Bernd; Hagen, Hans; Aurich, Jan C. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Modern cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) connect different elements like machine tools and workpieces. The constituent elements are often equipped with high-performance sensors as well as information and communication ...
    • Physical Modeling for Selective Laser Sintering Process 

      Gobal, Arash; Ravani, Bahram (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      The process of selective laser sintering (SLS) involves selective heating and fusion of powdered material using a moving laser beam. Because of its complicated manufacturing process, physical modeling of the transformation ...
    • A Multiscale Materials Modeling Method With Seamless Zooming Capability Based on Surfacelets1 

      Huang, Wei; Wang, Yan; Rosen, David W. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      In multiscale materials modeling, it is desirable that different levels of details can be specified in different regions of interest without the separation of scales so that the geometric and physical properties of materials ...
    • Description and Evaluation of a Simplified Model to Simulate the Optical Behavior of an Angle-Resolved Scattered Light Sensor 

      Torner, François M.; Stelzer, Gerhard; Anslinger, Lukas; Seewig, Jörg (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Scattered light sensors are optical sensors commonly used in industrial applications. They are particularly well suited to characterizing surface roughness. In contrast to most geometric measuring devices, a scattered light ...
    • Toward a Lifecycle Information Framework and Technology in Manufacturing 

      Hedberg, Jr., Thomas; Feeney, Allison Barnard; Helu, Moneer; Camelio, Jaime A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Industry has been chasing the dream of integrating and linking data across the product lifecycle and enterprises for decades. However, industry has been challenged by the fact that the context in which data are used varies ...
    • A Three-Dimensional Diffusion Filtering Model Establishment and Analysis for Point Cloud Intensity Noise 

      Zhang, Yi; Lyu, Xiuqin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      To improve the quality of point cloud data, as well as maintain edge and detail information in the course of filtering intensity data, a three-dimensional (3D) diffusion filtering equation based on the general principle ...
    • Heterogeneous Composition Adaptation With Material Convolution Control Features 

      Gupta, Vikas; Tandon, Puneet (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Controlling and accomplishing the desired functional material composition in a heterogeneous object (HO) is a close loop process and requires frequent remodeling-and-analysis. Thus, flexibility and capability to efficiently ...
    • Enriching STEP Product Model With Geometric Dimension and Tolerance Information for One-Dimensional Tolerance Analysis 

      Sarigecili, Mehmet I.; Roy, Utpal; Rachuri, Sudarsan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)
      Information exchange and sharing become a necessity for digital factory but they have been more challenging as the industry is computerized more. This is mainly because the capabilities of computerized systems have grown ...