Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Thermal Performance Optimization in Electric Vehicle Power Trains by Locally Orthotropic Surface Layer Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this paper, the application of orthotropic material orientation optimization for controlling heat flow in electric car power trains is presented. The design process is applied to a case model, which conducts heat while ... -
On the Pareto Optimality of Ashby's Selection Method for Beams Under Bending
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The paper deals with the problem of choosing the material and the cross section of a beam subjected to bending under structural safety, elastic stability, and available room constraints. An extension of the theory proposed ... -
An Application of Yaglom's Geometric Algebra to Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages for Prescribed Planar Motion of Oriented Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Planar motion coordination of an unoriented line passing through a point or tangent to a conic is a well-known problem in kinematics. In Yaglom's algebraic geometry, oriented lines in a plane are represented with dual ... -
The Moore–Penrose Dual Generalized Inverse Matrix With Application to Kinematic Synthesis of Spatial Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The paper initially reports about the properties of an expression of dual generalized inverse matrix currently available in the literature. It is demonstrated that such a matrix does not fulfill all the Penrose conditions. ... -
A New Method of Motion Rule Synthesis for Face Gear Manufacturing by Plane-Cutter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The application of a Gleason Coniflex cutter (plane-cutter) to a modern Phoenix bevel gear machine tool in face gear manufacturing has an advantage of involving a universal cutter or grinder and an available existing ... -
Homogenization of Mechanical Properties for Material Extrusion Periodic Lattice Structures Considering Joint Stiffening Effects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Many engineering applications utilize periodic lattice structures to take advantage of their favorable and tailorable mechanical properties. However, manufacturing the structures and evaluating their mechanical properties ... -
Reliability-Based Topology Optimization Using Mean-Value Second-Order Saddlepoint Approximation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) approach is presented using a new mean-value second-order saddlepoint approximation (MVSOSA) method to calculate the probability of failure. The topology optimizer uses a ... -
A Model for the Design of a Pomelo Peel Bioinspired Foam
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The structure of pomelo peel arouses research interest in recent years because of the outstanding damping and energy dissipating performance of the pomelo peel. Researchers found that pomelo peel has varying pore size ... -
A Study on Computational Efficiency Improvement of Novel SORM Using the Convolution Integration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper proposes to apply the convolution integral method to the novel second-order reliability method (SORM) to further improve its computational efficiency. The novel SORM showed better accuracy in estimating the ... -
Object Reorientation and Creative Performance
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Second-Order Cone Programming Approach to Design of Linkage Mechanisms With Arbitrarily Inclined Hinges
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)An optimization approach is presented for generating linkage mechanisms consisting of frame members with arbitrarily inclined hinges. A second-order cone programming (SOCP) problem is solved to obtain the locations and ... -
Passive Prosthetic Foot Shape and Size Optimization Using Lower Leg Trajectory Error
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A method is presented to optimize the shape and size of a passive, energy-storing prosthetic foot using the lower leg trajectory error (LLTE) as the design objective. The LLTE is defined as the root-mean-square error between ... -
An Inverse, Decision-Based Design Method for Integrated Design Exploration of Materials, Products, and Manufacturing Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A material's design revolution is underway with a focus to design the material microstructure and processing paths to achieve certain performance requirements of products. A host of manufacturing processes are involved in ... -
Design of Three-Dimensional, Triply Periodic Unit Cell Scaffold Structures for Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Highly organized, porous architectures leverage the true potential of additive manufacturing (AM) as they can simply not be manufactured by any other means. However, their mainstream usage is being hindered by the traditional ... -
Design Exploration of Reliably Manufacturable Materials and Structures With Applications to Negative Stiffness Metamaterials and Microstereolithography1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)One of the challenges in designing metamaterials for additive manufacturing (AM) is accounting for the differences between as-designed and as-built geometries and material properties. From a designer's perspective, these ... -
A Conceptual Design and Modeling Framework for Integrated Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Modeling and simulation for additive manufacturing (AM) is commonly used in industry. Nevertheless, a central issue remaining is the integration of different models focusing on different objectives and targeting different ... -
An Adaptive Directional Boundary Sampling Method for Efficient Reliability-Based Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Due to the nested optimization loop structure and time-demanding computation of structural response, the computational accuracy and cost of reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) have become a challenging issue in ... -
Reliability-Based Design Optimization on Qualitative Objective With Limited Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) algorithms typically assume a designer's prior knowledge of the objective function along with its explicit mathematical formula and the probability distributions of random design ... -
Gaming the System: An Agent-Based Model of Estimation Strategies and their Effects on System Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Parameter estimates in large-scale complex engineered systems (LaCES) affect system evolution, yet can be difficult and expensive to test. Systems engineering uses analytical methods to reduce uncertainty, but a growing ... -
Efficient Reliability Assessment With the Conditional Probability Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Reliability assessment is an important procedure in engineering design in which the probability of failure or equivalently the probability of survival is computed based on appropriate design criteria and model behavior. ...