Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Jacobian-Based Topology Optimization Method Using an Improved Stiffness Evaluation 

      Jin, Mohui; Zhang, Xianmin; Yang, Zhou; Zhu, Benliang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      A Jacobian-based topology optimization method is recently proposed for compliant parallel mechanisms (CPMs), in which the CPMs' Jacobian matrix and characteristic stiffness are optimized simultaneously to achieve kinematic ...

    • Integration of Statistics- and Physics-Based Methods—A Feasibility Study on Accurate System Reliability Prediction 

      Hu, Zhengwei; Du, Xiaoping (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Component reliability can be estimated by either statistics-based methods with data or physics-based methods with models. Both types of methods are usually independently applied, making it difficult to estimate the joint ...

    • A Load Distribution Model for Planetary Gear Sets 

      Hu, Y.; Talbot, D.; Kahraman, A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      A load distribution model of planetary gear sets presented is capable of simulating planetary gear sets having component- and system-level design variations such as component supporting conditions, different kinds of gear ...

    • Adaptive Surrogate Modeling for Time-Dependent Multidisciplinary Reliability Analysis 

      Hu, Zhen; Mahadevan, Sankaran (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Multidisciplinary systems with transient behavior under time-varying inputs and coupling variables pose significant computational challenges in reliability analysis. Surrogate models of individual disciplinary analyses ...

    • A Sequential Accelerated Life Testing Framework for System Reliability Assessment With Untestable Components 

      Hu, Zhen; Mourelatos, Zissimos P. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Testing of components at higher-than-nominal stress level provides an effective way of reducing the required testing effort for system reliability assessment. Due to various reasons, not all components are directly testable ...

    • The Effects of Designers' Contextual Experience on the Ideation Process and Design Outcomes 

      Hu, Wan-Lin; Reid, Tahira (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Personal context-specific experience can affect how a designer evaluates a design problem and proposes solutions. However, this effect was seldom discovered in a quantitative manner in problem-solving design tasks. This ...

    • Overconstrained Mechanisms Derived From RPRP Loops 

      Hsu, Kuan-Lun; Ting, Kwun-Lon (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      This paper addresses the assembly strategy capable of deriving a family of overconstrained mechanisms systematically. The modular approach is proposed. It treats the topological synthesis of overconstrained mechanisms as ...

    • Skeleton-Section Template Parameterization for Shape Optimization 

      Hu, Ping; Yang, Lei; Li, Baojun (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      A technique based on a skeleton-section template for parameterizing finite element (FE) models is reported and applied to shape optimization of thin-walled beam components. The template consists of a skeletal curve and a ...

    • The Characteristics of Innovative, Mechanical Products—10 Years Later 

      Hölttä-Otto, Katja; Otto, Kevin; Song, Chaoyang; Luo, Jianxi; Li, Timothy; Seepersad, Carolyn C.; Seering, Warren (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Ten years prior to this paper, innovative mechanical products were analyzed and found to embody multiple innovation characteristics—an average of two more than competing products in the marketplace. At the time, it was not ...

    • Automated Manufacturing Process Selection During Conceptual Design 

      Hoefer, Michael J.; Frank, Matthew C. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      This paper presents a method for automated manufacturing process selection during conceptual design. It is helpful to know which manufacturing processes can produce a design at an early stage, when the overall design can ...

    • Performance Prediction and Scaling Laws of Circular Dielectric Elastomer Membrane Actuators 

      Hau, Steffen; York, Alexander; Rizzello, Gianluca; Seelecke, Stefan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      For a number of emerging mechatronics applications, dielectric elastomers (DEs) appear as a more energy efficient, lightweight, and low-cost solution with respect to established actuation technologies based, e.g., on ...

    • Evaluating Clustering Algorithms for Identifying Design Subproblems 

      Herrmann, Jeffrey W.; Morency, Michael; Anparasan, Azrah; Gralla, Erica L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Understanding how humans decompose design problems will yield insights that can be applied to develop better support for human designers. However, there are few established methods for identifying the decompositions that ...

    • Enhance Engineering Design Education in the Middle Years With Authentic Engineering Problems 

      Han, Yen-Lin; Cook, Kathleen; Mason, Gregory; Shuman, Teodora Rutar (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Engineering design has been a requirement in the curriculum for engineering accreditation since the mid-90 s. This emphasis on engineering design has introduced significant changes to engineering curricula in freshmen and ...

    • Network Analysis of Design Automation Literature 

      Guo, Tinghao; Xu, Jiarui; Sun, Yue; Dong, Yilin; Davis, Neal; Allison, James T. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      In this paper, we present the results of a study of citation and co-authorship networks for articles published at the ASME Design Automation Conference (DAC) during the years 2002–2015. Two topic-modeling methods are ...

    • A Novel Design Method for Nonuniform Lattice Structures Based on Topology Optimization 

      Han, Yafeng; Lu, Wen Feng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Lattice structures are broadly used in lightweight structure designs and multifunctional applications. Especially, with the unprecedented capabilities of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and computational optimization ...

    • An Approach to Designing Deployable Mechanisms Based on Rigid Modified Origami Flashers 

      Guang, Chenhan; Yang, Yang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Flasher, which has been used in space engineering, is a class of origami patterns. After modifying and introducing cuts for the flasher pattern, we add nonzero thickness to the flasher and taper its panels. We find that, ...

    • Reliability Analysis of Nonlinear Vibratory Systems Under Non-Gaussian Loads 

      Geroulas, Vasileios; Mourelatos, Zissimos P.; Tsianika, Vasiliki; Baseski, Igor (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      A general methodology is presented for time-dependent reliability and random vibrations of nonlinear vibratory systems with random parameters excited by non-Gaussian loads. The approach is based on polynomial chaos expansion ...

    • Multi-Information Source Fusion and Optimization to Realize ICME: Application to Dual-Phase Materials 

      Ghoreishi, Seyede Fatemeh; Molkeri, Abhilash; Srivastava, Ankit; Arroyave, Raymundo; Allaire, Douglas (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) calls for the integration of computational tools into the materials and parts development cycle, while the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) calls for the acceleration ...

    • Implementation of a Finite Element Model for Gear Stress Analysis Based on Tie-Surface Constraints and Its Validation Through the Hertz's Theory 

      Gonzalez-Perez, Ignacio; Fuentes-Aznar, Alfonso (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      A new finite element model for stress analysis of gear drives is proposed. Tie-surface constraints are applied at each tooth of the gear model to obtain meshes that can be independently defined: a finer mesh at contact ...

    • Design of Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis With Nonlinear Parallel Spring Mechanism 

      Gao, Fei; Liu, Yannan; Liao, Wei-Hsin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
      In this paper, a powered ankle-foot prosthesis with nonlinear parallel spring mechanism is developed. The parallel spring mechanism is used for reducing the energy consumption and power requirement of the motor, at the ...