Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Concurrent Structure and Process Optimization for Minimum Cost Metal Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Metals-additive manufacturing (MAM) is enabling unprecedented design freedom and the ability to produce significantly lighter weight parts with the same performance, offering the possibility of significant environmental ... -
Topology Optimization of Three-Dimensional Woven Materials Using a Ground Structure Design Variable Representation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Three-dimensional (3D) weaving has recently arisen as viable means for manufacturing metallic, architected microlattices. Herein, we describe a topology optimization approach for designing the architecture of such 3D woven ... -
On the Use of Symmetries in Building Surrogate Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)When simulations are expensive and multiple realizations are necessary, as is the case in uncertainty propagation, statistical inference, and optimization, surrogate models can achieve accurate predictions at low computational ... -
Generating Technology Evolution Prediction Intervals Using a Bootstrap Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Technology evolution prediction is critical for designers, business managers, and entrepreneurs to make important decisions during product development planning such as R&D investment and outsourcing. In practice, ... -
Designing for Trust: Understanding the Role of Agent Gender and Location on User Perceptions of Trust in Home Automation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Although trust can have a positively mediating effect on information technology adoption and usage, the concept has not been extensively investigated in the home automation field. Therefore, this work is aimed at exploring ... -
Expanding the Solution Space in Engineering Design Education: A Simulation-Based Investigation of Product Dissection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Product dissection has been highlighted as an effective means of interacting with example products in order to produce creative outcomes. While product dissection is often conducted as a team in engineering design education, ... -
An Approach to Integrate Commonality and Product Family Design With Inventory Decisions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Commonality, or the use of the same components among products in a product family, has been considered an effective approach to design a product family. By implementing commonality, a firm can reduce the number of distinct ... -
The Economies and Dimensionality of Design Prototyping: Value, Time, Cost, and Fidelity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Economic use of early-stage prototyping is of paramount importance to companies engaged in the development of innovative products, services, and systems because it directly impacts their bottom line. There is likewise a ... -
A Level Set Method With a Bounded Diffusion for Structural Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In level-set-based topology optimization methods, the spatial gradients of the level set field need to be controlled to avoid excessive flatness or steepness at the structural interfaces. One of the most commonly utilized ... -
Structural Topology Optimization Using a Moving Morphable Component-Based Method Considering Geometrical Nonlinearity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The moving morphable component (MMC)-based method is a newly developed approach for topology optimization. In the MMC-based method, the design problem is formulated using a set of morphable components, and the optimized ... -
A Moving Morphable Component Based Topology Optimization Approach for Rib-Stiffened Structures Considering Buckling Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Stiffened structures are widely used in industry. However, how to optimally distribute the stiffening ribs on a given base plate remains a challenging issue, partially because the topology and geometry of stiffening ribs ... -
How Concept Selection Tools Impact the Development of Creative Ideas in Engineering Design Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Concept selection tools have been heavily integrated into engineering design education in an effort to reduce the risks and uncertainties of early-phase design ideas and aid students in the decision-making process. However, ... -
Research on the Tooth Modification in Gear Skiving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)As a prospective machining method for cylindrical gear, gear skiving has been promoted by many commercial companies, such as Gleason, Mitsubishi, and Prawema recently. Although the principle and mathematical model for gear ... -
Technology Evolution Prediction Using Lotka–Volterra Equations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)During the development planning of a new product, designers and entrepreneurs rely on the prediction of product performance to make business investment and design strategy decisions. Moore's law and the logistic S-curve ... -
Multi-Objective Optimal Design of Obstacle-Avoiding Two-Dimensional Steiner Trees With Application to Ascent Assembly Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)We present an effective optimization strategy that is capable of discovering high-quality cost-optimal solution for two-dimensional (2D) path network layouts (i.e., groups of obstacle-avoiding Euclidean Steiner trees) that, ... -
Programmable Multistable Mechanisms: Synthesis and Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Compliant mechanisms can be classified according to the number of their stable states and are called multistable mechanisms if they have more than one stable state. We introduce a new family of mechanisms for which the ... -
Design and Treadmill Test of a Broadband Energy Harvesting Backpack With a Mechanical Motion Rectifier
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The energy harvesting backpack that converts the kinetic energy produced by the vertical oscillatory motion of suspended loads to electricity during normal walking is a promising solution to fulfill the ever-rising need ... -
Experimental Study on the Associations Among Sketches Based on Design Cognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This study aimed to investigate the generation mechanism of pairwise associated sketches and different associated types through the experimental analysis of the cognitive processes of the designers in conceptual design ... -
Experimental Characterization of a T-Shaped Programmable Multistable Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Programmable multistable mechanisms (PMM) exhibit a modifiable stability behavior in which the number of stable states, stiffness, and reaction force characteristics are controlled via their programming inputs. In this ... -
Microstructural Materials Design Via Deep Adversarial Learning Methodology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Identifying the key microstructure representations is crucial for computational materials design (CMD). However, existing microstructure characterization and reconstruction (MCR) techniques have limitations to be applied ...