Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Kinematic Analysis of Planetary Gear Trains Based on Topology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Planetary gear trains (PGTs) are used in automatic transmission to achieve any desired speed ratios. At present, the study on the relationship between speed ratio and topology is not significant. Therefore, this paper ... -
Determination of Optimum Preload Considering the Skidding and Thermal Characteristic of High-Speed Angular Contact Ball Bearing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Skidding is a typical behavior of high-speed angular contact ball bearings. Studies show that the effect of preload on bearing skidding and thermal characteristic is essential but insufficient. This paper proposed a ... -
A Spectral Density Function Approach for Active Layer Design of Organic Photovoltaic Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVCs), having received significant attention over the last decade, are yet to be established as viable alternatives to conventional solar cells due to their low power conversion efficiency ... -
Kinematic Model of Planetary Roller Screw Mechanism With Run-Out and Position Errors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A kinematic model of the planetary roller screw mechanism (PRSM) is proposed, which accounts for the run-out errors of the screw, roller, nut, ring gear, and carrier, and the position errors of the nut and the pinhole in ... -
A Deployable Transseptal Brace for Stabilizing Cardiac Catheters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A bracing device for stabilizing cardiac catheters inside the heart was developed to provide surgical-level dexterity to minimally invasive catheter-based procedures for cardiac valve disease. The brace was designed to ... -
A Test of the Rapid Formation of Design Cues for Product Body Shapes and Features
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Consumers often use a product's visual design as a mental shortcut to judge its unobservable attributes. Mental associations between visual design and unobservable attributes aid consumers in their judgments, and hypothetically ... -
Influence of the Operating Conditions of Two-Degree-of-Freedom Planetary Gear Trains on Tooth Friction Losses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In a planetary gear train (PGT), the power loss by tooth friction is a function of the potential power developed within the gear train elements rather than that being transmitted through it. In the present work, we focus ... -
Connecting Microstructures for Multiscale Topology Optimization With Connectivity Index Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)With the rapid developments of advanced manufacturing and its ability to manufacture microscale features, architected materials are receiving ever increasing attention in many physics fields. Such a design problem can be ... -
Design of an Isotropic Metamaterial With Constant Stiffness and Zero Poisson's Ratio Over Large Deformations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A great deal of engineering effort is focused on changing mechanical material properties by creating microstructural architectures instead of modifying chemical composition. This results in meta-materials, which can exhibit ... -
A Survey of Modeling of Lattice Structures Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing
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Effectiveness of an Immersive Virtual Environment for Collaboration With Gesture Support Using Low-Cost Hardware
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Since the advent of modern computer-aided design software, engineers have been divorced from the highly collaborative environment previously enjoyed. Today's highly complex designs require modern software tools and the ... -
Experimental Validation of Surrogate Models for Predicting the Draping of Physical Interpolating Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper concerns the experimental validation of two surrogate models through a benchmark study involving two different variable shape mould prototype systems. The surrogate models in question are different methods based ... -
An Adaptive Aggregation-Based Approach for Expensively Constrained Black-Box Optimization Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Expensive constraints are commonly seen in real-world engineering design. However, metamodel based design optimization (MBDO) approaches often assume inexpensive constraints. In this work, the situational adaptive Kreisselmeier ... -
In Memoriam: Faydor L. Litvin (1914–2017)
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Announcing the 2017 Editors' Choice Award and Honorable Mentions
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Editorial
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Membrane-Enhanced Lamina Emergent Torsional Joints for Surrogate Folds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Lamina emergent compliant mechanisms (including origami-adapted compliant mechanisms) are mechanical devices that can be fabricated from a planar material (a lamina) and have motion that emerges out of the fabrication ... -
Topological Structural Design of Umbrella-Shaped Deployable Mechanisms Based on New Spatial Closed-Loop Linkage Units
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The umbrella linkage is one of the most classical deployable mechanisms. This paper concentrates on topological structural design of a family of umbrella-shaped deployable mechanisms based on new two-layer and two-loop ... -
Analyzing Participant Behaviors in Design Crowdsourcing Contests Using Causal Inference on Field Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas and solving problems using a large number of people on the Internet. It is gaining popularity for activities in the engineering design process ranging from concept generation ... -
Heuristics-Enhanced Model Fusion Considering Incomplete Data Using Kriging Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Simulation models are widely used to describe processes that would otherwise be arduous to analyze. However, many of these models merely provide an estimated response of the real systems, as their input parameters are ...