Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Recent submissions
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Heat Exchanger Design for Ocean Thermal Difference Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)This paper discusses variations in heat exchanger design and configuration for a class of ocean thermal power plants. Details of the heat exchanger models are summarized and analytical results ... -
Effect of Stiffness on Tool Wear and New Tool Life Equation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)An investigation of the effect of stiffness of the machining system on tool life with different numbers of teeth in the cutter, cutting speeds, and feeds is described. A statistical analysis ... -
A Load Calibration Technique for Use on Large Industrial Presses and Small Testing Machines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)A load calibration technique based on the plastic deformation of a ring specimen is described. The method is applicable to any size press at loads up to full capacity. The method consists ... -
Some Considerations on Tool-Life Scatter and Its Implications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)The effect of tool-life scatter on the uncertainty of parameters of a typical tool-life model is analyzed using the joint confidence region approach. Some apparent contradictions concerning ... -
Railway Truck Response to Random Rail Irregularities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)This paper discusses the random response of a seven degree of freedom, passenger truck model to lateral rail irregularities. Power spectral densities and root mean square levels of component ... -
A General Method for the Fatigue-Resistant Design of Mechanical Components—Part 1: Graphical
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)This paper presents a graphical method for the direct solution of fatigue design problems where the mode of overloading is to be taken into account. The material fatigue failure diagram is ... -
A General Method for the Fatigue-Resistant Design of Mechanical Components—Part 2: Analytical
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)This paper develops the general analytical solution to the design of mechanical components under fatigue loading. Its only limitation is that the overloading lines must be a straight line on ... -
Computer Design of a Vibration-Free Face-Milling Cutter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)A method is developed to choose the blade spacing for a face-milling cutter that will minimize vibration. When the dynamic frequency response of a machine-tool-workpiece system is known, a ... -
Monte Carlo Simulation of the Machining Economics Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)A mathematical model of the machining operation is developed from experimental cutting data. The model considers two aspects of the machining process: tool wear and surface finish. The tool ... -
An Operational 40 kG Superconducting Beam Transport Magnet and its Cryogenic System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)A superconducting 40 kG magnet system 4 meters long is now operating which bends the 30 billion electron volt primary proton beam produced by the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. ... -
Multiplication of LNG Cold to Produce Refrigeration at 273 K
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)It is becoming of great importance to develop processes which can utilize the “available cold” of LNG and thus recover the energy used for its liquefaction. It is possible to evaluate the ... -
The Ocean as a Renewable Source of Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)The oceans and their environment have long been envisioned as renewable sources of energy. It is the purpose of this paper to assess the feasibility of drawing on the sea for power and to ... -
On the Equivalent Diameter Approach to Prediction of Rarefied Gas Flow in Noncircular Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)The feasibility of using a new characteristic dimension (equivalent diameter) is explored for predicting rarefied flows in noncircular tubes. A conclusion is that a single characteristic dimension ... -
The Impact Damper as a Method of Improving Cantilever Boring Bars
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)The dynamic behavior of three different designs of a cantilever boring bar are compared by means of forced vibration tests. These are a bar with diametrically opposed flats machined along its ... -
The Natural Frequencies and Critical Speeds of a Rotating, Flexible Shaft-Disk System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)An analytical investigation into the influence of disk flexibility on the transverse bending natural frequencies and critical speeds of a rotating shaft-disk system is presented. The geometric ... -
Sandwich Beams with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)Presented is a practical and efficient method for the analysis of arbitrarily supported sandwich beams. Based on the previously derived set of governing variational equations, the present method ... -
Optimal Linear Dampers for Flexible Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)Modern optimal control techniques are applied to minimize the transient vibrations of uniform plates by means of one or more linear dampers. Both damper rates and locations are optimized, and ... -
The Use of Decelerative Metal Cutting in the Design of Energy-Management Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)This paper focuses on the design principles basic to the development of devices that can be used to absorb and manage energy during collisions. Design guidelines and a chart are developed for ... -
Thermal Energy Storage and Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)Eutectic fluoride mixtures of alkali and alkaline earth metals posses extremely high thermal storage capacities, and are therefore suitable for space heating as well as for powering heat engines. ... -
Helices Under Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1975)Previous solutions for the case of close-coiled helical springs and for helices made of thin bars are extended to cover all the range of geometric parameters. The complete solution is presented ...