Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Kinematics Meets Crystallography: The Concept of a Motion Space1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, it is shown how rigidbody kinematics can be used to assist in determining the atomic structure of proteins and nucleic acids when using xray crystallography, which is a powerful method for structure ... -
A Framework for Explicating Formal Geometrical and Dimensional Tolerances Schema From Manufacturing Process Plans for Three Dimensional Conformance Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A process plan is an instruction set for the manufacture of parts generated from detailed design drawings or computeraided design (CAD) models. While these plans are highly detailed about machines, tools, fixtures, and ... -
Real Time Visualization of Finite Element Models Using Surrogate Modeling Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Parametric finite element analysis (FEA) models are commonly used in iterative design processes to obtain an optimum model given a set of loads, constraints, objectives, and design parameters to vary. In some instances, ... -
Partial Bi Invariance of SE(3) Metrics1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In a flurry of articles in the mid to late 1990s, various metrics for the group of rigidbody motions, SE(3), were introduced for measuring distance between any two reference frames or rigidbody motions. During this time, ... -
A Randomized Approach to Volume Constrained Polyhedronization Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Given a finite set of points in R3, polyhedronization deals with constructing a simple polyhedron such that the vertices of the polyhedron are precisely the given points. In this paper, we present randomized approximation ... -
Designing Optimal Origami Structures by Computational Evolutionary Embryogeny
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)As the advantages of foldable or deployable structures are being discovered, research into origami engineering has attracted more focus from both artists and engineers. With the aid of modern computer techniques, some ... -
Coarse to Fine Extraction of Free Form Surface Features
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Freeform surface features (FFSFs) extraction is one of the key issues for redesigning and reediting the surface models exported from commercial software or reconstructed by reverse engineering. In this paper, a coarsetofine ... -
Disassembly Sequence Evaluation: A User Study Leveraging Immersive Computing Technologies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)As interest in product recovery, reuse, and recycling rises, planning and evaluating disassembly sequences are becoming increasingly important. The manner in which a product can be taken apart strongly influences endoflife ... -
A Novel Low Cost Stereolithography Process Based on Vector Scanning and Mask Projection for High Accuracy, High Speed, High Throughput, and Large Area Fabrication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Photopolymerization based process is one of the most popular additive manufacturing (AM) processes. Two primary configurations for this process are laser based vector by vector scanning (0D) and projection based layer by ... -
Computational Conceptual Design Using Space Matrix
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Conceptual design is an early stage in the product design process, which has an essential effect on product innovation. This paper is devoted to computational conceptual design utilizing design synthesis. After the functional ... -
Evaluation of NURBS Surfaces for Regular Structured Parameter Values
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The evaluation of surface points and derivatives of NURBS surfaces for parameter values that are regularly distributed in a rectangular structure is considered. Because of the regularity, parts of the computations can be ... -
Reverse Engineering Using Close Range Photogrammetry for Additive Manufactured Reproduction of Egyptian Artifacts and Other Objets d'art2
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Photogrammetry has been in use for over 150 years. This research considers how digital image capture using a medium range Nikon digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera, can be transformed into 3D virtual spatial images, ... -
Filling N Sided Holes With Trimmed B Spline Surfaces Based on Energy Minimization Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Using a trimmed rectangular BSpline surface to fill an nsided hole is a much desired operation in computer aided design (CAD), but few papers have addressed this issue. Based on an energyminimization or variational BSpline ... -
Graph Based Simplification of Feature Based Three Dimensional Computer Aided Design Models for Preserving Connectivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The required level of detail (LOD) of a threedimensional computeraided design (3D CAD) model differs according to its purpose. It is therefore important that users are able to simplify a highly complex 3D CAD model and ... -
The Influence of Interaction Technology on the Learning of Assembly Tasks Using Virtual Reality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper focuses on the use of virtual reality (VR) systems for teaching industrial assembly tasks and studies the influence of the interaction technology on the learning process. The experiment conducted follows a ... -
Large Scale Finite Element Analysis Via Assembly Free Deflated Conjugate Gradient
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Largescale finite element analysis (FEA) with millions of degrees of freedom (DOF) is becoming commonplace in solid mechanics. The primary computational bottleneck in such problems is the solution of large linear systems ... -
On Generalized Jacobi–Bernstein Basis Transformation: Application of Multidegree Reduction of Bأ©zier Curves and Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper formulates a new explicit expression for the generalized Jacobi polynomials (GJPs) in terms of Bernstein basis. We also establish and prove the basis transformation between the GJPs basis and Bernstein basis and ... -
Toward Automatic Tolerancing of Mechanical Assemblies: Assembly Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Generating geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) specifications for mechanical assemblies is a complex and tedious task, an expertise that few mechanical engineers possess. The task is often done by trial and ... -
Design of a New Parametric Path Plan for Additive Manufacturing of Hollow Porous Structures With Functionally Graded Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this paper, a novel path planning approach is proposed to generate porous structures with internal features. The interconnected and continuous deposition path is designed to control the internal material composition in ... -
Hierarchical Optimization Based Approach for Two Dimensional Rectangular Layout Design Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this study, we propose a hierarchical optimizationbased approach for twodimensional rectangular layout design problems. Decompositionbased optimization has been a key approach for complicated design problems in ...