Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Spatial Grammar Method for the Computational Design Synthesis of Virtual Soft Locomotion Robots
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Soft locomotion robots are intrinsically compliant and have a large number of degrees of freedom. They lack rigid components that provide them with higher flexibility, and they have no joints that need protection from ... -
A Problem Class With Combined Architecture, Plant, and Control Design Applied to Vehicle Suspensions
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Here we describe a problem class with combined architecture, plant, and control design for dynamic engineering systems. The design problem class is characterized by architectures comprised of linear physical elements and ... -
A Flexible Chain Proposal for Winch-Based Point Absorbers
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ocean wave power is a promising renewable energy source. It has, however, been difficult to find a cost-effective solution to convert wave energy into electricity. The harsh marine environment and the fact that wave power ... -
Investigating the Influence of Designers’ Cognitive Characteristics and Interaction Behaviors in Design Concept Generation
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper investigates relationships among the cognitive characteristics, interaction behaviors, and ideation outcomes of 14 engineering design teams engaged in concept generation. Cognitive characteristics were measured ... -
An Energy-Based Load Distribution Approach for the Application of Gear Mesh Stiffness on Elastic Bodies
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study introduces a new potential energy-based design method for simplifying elastic gear bodies in low- to mid-range frequency applications by bridging over the gear teeth with external stiffness elements. The advantage ... -
Do Student Trials Predict What Professionals Value in Sustainable Design Practices?
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)When teaching sustainable design in industry or academia, we should teach design methods, activities, and mindsets that are most effective at driving real change in a industry. However, most studies of design practices are ... -
An Update to a Functional Modeling Scoring Rubric With Overall and Question-Level Inter-Rater Reliability
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Functional modeling allows an engineer or a designer to separate component architecture from the purpose or the objective of a system. Many engineering design textbooks introduce functional modeling as a tool to aid with ... -
Reflections Over the Dual Ring—Applications to Kinematic Synthesis
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Least-square problems arise in multiple application areas. The numerical algorithm intended to compute offline the minimum (Euclidian)-norm approximation to an overdetermined system of linear equations, the core of least ... -
An Active Ease-Off Topography Modification Approach for Hypoid Pinions Based on a Modified Error Sensitivity Analysis Method
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A new active ease-off topography modification approach is proposed to improve the meshing performance of hypoid gears based on a fourth-order predesigned transmission error (PTE) model and a modified error sensitivity ... -
Optimal Flow Control and Single Split Architecture Exploration for Fluid-Based Thermal Management
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)High-performance cooling is often necessary for thermal management of high power density systems. However, human intuition and experience may not be adequate to identify optimal thermal management designs as systems increase ... -
An Empirical Study on the Impact of Design Brief Information on the Creativity of Design Outcomes With Consideration of Gender and Gender Diversity
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study aims to understand how information in design briefs affects the creativity of design outcomes. We tested this during a Collaborative Sketching (C-Sketch) ideation exercise with first-year undergraduate student ... -
Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Fast Sequential Optimization With Gaussian Processes
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Available computational models for many engineering design applications are both expensive and and of a black-box nature. This renders traditional optimization techniques difficult to apply, including gradient-based ... -
Multiple Target Exploration Approach for Design Exploration Using a Swarm Intelligence and Clustering
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In engineering design problems, performance functions evaluate the quality of designs. Among the designs, some of them are classified as good designs if responses from performance functions satisfy a target point or range. ... -
Novel Gear Transmission Mechanism With Twice Unequal Amplitude Transmission Ratio
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The operation effectiveness of multi-bar transplanting mechanisms is low, and the specific changing law of the transmission ratio (the curve of the transmission ratio has twice unequal amplitude [TUA] fluctuation.), which ... -
Automatic Enumeration of Feasible Configuration for the Dedicated Hybrid Transmission With Multi-Degree-of-Freedom and Multiplanetary Gear Set
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents a novel design approach to systematically synthesize available configurations for dedicated hybrid transmission (DHT) systems subject to design constraints and required operation modes by using simple ... -
Design of a Variable-Mobility Linkage Using the Bohemian Dome
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A new method is presented for the design of kinematotropic linkages based on 2-DOF kinematic chains that generate more than one surface. As an example of the proposed method, a kinematotropic linkage is obtained by studying ... -
Topological Characterization of an Evolving Product Structure Network: A Case Study of Generational Smartphone Products
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Products evolve over time to satisfy new customer needs, technologies, and markets. The evolution process of products necessarily involves changes in a product structure that might be characterized by inherent evolving ... -
Mining Changes in User Expectation Over Time From Online Reviews
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Customers post online reviews at any time. With the timestamp of online reviews, they can be regarded as a flow of information. With this characteristic, designers can capture the changes in customer feedback to help set ... -
An Integrated Geometric-Graph-Theoretic Approach to Representing Origami Structures and Their Corresponding Truss Frameworks
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Origami has provided various interesting applications in science and engineering. Appropriate representations and evaluation on crease patterns play an important role in developing an innovative origami structure with ... -
Stiffness Design of Circular-Axis Hinge, Self-Similar Mechanism With Large Out-of-Plane Motion
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This research proposes the self-similarity design concept of flexible mechanisms by studying the out-of-plane, piston motion of a compliant device. Self-similar compliant mechanisms can be formed by connecting flexible ...