Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Systematic Methodology Based on Word Embedding for Identifying the Relation Between Online Customer Reviews and Sales Rank
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In the buying decision process, online reviews become an important source of information. They become the basis of evaluating alternatives before making purchase decision. This paper proposes a methodology to reveal one ... -
A Study on the Design and Performance of Epicycloid Bevels of Pure-Rolling Contact
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)To avoid the negative influence of sliding contact, this paper tries to investigate the spiral bevels of pure-rolling contact that can be manufactured by existing manufacture technology. In this process, spatial conjugate ... -
Piecing Together Product Dissection: How Dissection Conditions Impact Student Conceptual Understanding and Cognitive Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Product dissection has been widely deployed in engineering education as a means to aid in student's understanding of functional product elements, development of new concept ideas, and their preparation for industry. However, ... -
Toward a Universal Social Impact Metric for Engineered Products That Alleviate Poverty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)One of the purposes of creating products for developing countries is to improve the consumer's quality of life. Currently, there is no standard method for measuring the social impact of these types of products. As a result, ... -
An Advanced and Robust Ensemble Surrogate Model: Extended Adaptive Hybrid Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Hybrid or ensemble surrogate models developed in recent years have shown a better accuracy compared to individual surrogate models. However, it is still challenging for hybrid surrogate models to always meet the accuracy, ... -
Does Analogical Distance Affect Performance of Ideation?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Identifying relevant stimuli that help generate solutions of desired novelty and quality is challenging in analogical design. To quell this challenge, the multifaceted effects of using stimuli which are located at various ... -
An Inverse Method for Optimizing Elastic Properties Considering Multiple Loading Conditions and Displacement Criteria
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Significant research effort has been devoted to topology optimization (TO) of two- and three-dimensional structural elements subject to various design and loading criteria. While the field of TO has been tremendously ... -
Integrative Complexity: An Alternative Measure for System Modularity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Complexity and modularity are important inherent properties of the system. Complexity is the property of the system that has to do with individual system elements and their connective relationship, while modularity is the ... -
Characterizing the Effects of Multiple Analogs and Extraneous Information for Novice Designers in Design-by-Analogy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This study examines how the quantity of ideas and analog transfer in design-by-analogy (DbA) are affected by multiple analogs and extraneous information, or noise, using a between-subjects, factorial experiment. To evaluate ... -
A Novel Method for Producing a Conical Skiving Tool With Error-Free Flank Faces for Internal Gear Manufacture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Power skiving for internal gears has drawn increased industry attention in recent years because it has higher precision and productivity than gear shaping or broaching. Yet even though the commonly adopted conical skiving ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Domain Knowledge and Problem Framing on Sequential Decisions in Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Many decisions within engineering systems design are typically made by humans. These decisions significantly affect the design outcomes and the resources used within design processes. While decision theory is increasingly ... -
Shape and Form Optimization of On-Line Pressure-Compensating Drip Emitters to Achieve Lower Activation Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This study presents the design and validation of on-line pressure-compensating (PC) drip irrigation emitters with a substantially lower minimum compensating inlet pressure (MCIP) than commercially available products. A ... -
Exploring the Effects of a Product's Sustainability Triggers on Pro-Environmental Decision-Making
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The gap between consumers saying that they want and selecting sustainable products can be addressed through product design. Our previous research proposed a method for creating visible product features that trigger ... -
Kinematic Synthesis of a D-Drive MEMS Device With Rigid-Body Replacement Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this paper, a microsystem with prescribed functional capabilities is designed and simulated. In particular, the development of a straight line path generator micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) device is presented. ... -
An Optimum Design Method for a Thermal-Fluid Device Incorporating Multiobjective Topology Optimization With an Adaptive Weighting Scheme
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper proposes an optimum design method for a two-dimensional microchannel heat sink under a laminar flow assumption that simultaneously provides maximal heat exchange and minimal pressure drop, based on a topology ... -
An Integrated Type and Dimensional Synthesis Method to Design One Degree-of-Freedom Planar Linkages With Only Revolute Joints for Exoskeletons
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Exoskeletons can assist wearers to relearn natural movements when attached to the human body. However, most current devices are bulky and heavy, which limit their application. In this paper, we integrated type and dimensional ... -
A High-Dimensional Reliability Analysis Method for Simulation-Based Design Under Uncertainty
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A Designing and Generating Method for Grinding Relief Surfaces of a Dual-Cone Double-Enveloping Hourglass Worm Gear Hob
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Land widths and relief angles of a dual-cone double-enveloping hourglass worm gear hob are important factors that influence the life and the hobbing performance of the hob. Both of them are obtained by generating relief ... -
Sensitivity-Based Parameter Calibration and Model Validation Under Model Error
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In calibrating model parameters, it is important to include the model discrepancy term in order to capture missing physics in simulation, which can result from numerical, measurement, and modeling errors. Ignoring the ... -
Tuned Nonlinear Energy Sink With Conical Spring: Design Theory and Sensitivity Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper is devoted to the study of a nonlinear energy sink (NES) intended to attenuate vibration induced in a harmonically forced linear oscillator (LO) and working under the principle of targeted energy transfer (TET). ...