Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Transmission Error Due to Resonance in Synchronous Belt Drive With Eccentric Pulley
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In synchronous belt drives, it is generally difficult to eliminate pulley eccentricity, because the pulley teeth and shaft hole are produced separately and the pulley is installed on an eccentric shaft. This eccentricity ... -
On Decentralized Optimization for a Class of Multisubsystem Codesign Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Codesign refers to the process of integrating the optimization of the physical plant design and control of a system. In this paper, a new class of codesign problems with a multisubsystem architecture in both design and ... -
Reliability Analysis for Structures With Multiple Temporal and Spatial Parameters Based on the Effective First-Crossing Point
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)For efficiently estimating the dynamic failure probability of the structure with the multiple temporal and spatial parameters, a transferred limit state function technique is first proposed in this paper. By finding the ... -
Trajectory Optimization Using Analytical Target Cascading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In the previous reports, analytical target cascading (ATC) is generally applied to product optimization. In this paper, the application area of ATC is expanded to trajectory optimization. Direct collocation method is ... -
A Data-Driven Text Mining and Semantic Network Analysis for Design Information Retrieval
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)With the advent of the big-data era, massive information stored in electronic and digital forms on the internet become valuable resources for knowledge discovery in engineering design. Traditional document retrieval method ... -
InnoGPS for Data-Driven Exploration of Design Opportunities and Directions: The Case of Google Driverless Car Project
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Engineers and technology firms must continually explore new design opportunities and directions to sustain or thrive in technology competition. However, the related decisions are normally based on personal gut feeling or ... -
Mining Patent Precedents for Data-Driven Design: The Case of Spherical Rolling Robots
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Data-driven engineering designers often search for design precedents in patent databases to learn about relevant prior arts, seek design inspiration, or assess the novelty of their own new inventions. However, patent ... -
Mitigating Online Product Rating Biases Through the Discovery of Optimistic, Pessimistic, and Realistic Reviewers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The authors of this work present a model that reduces product rating biases that are a result of varying degrees of customers' optimism/pessimism. Recently, large-scale customer reviews and numerical product ratings have ... -
A Systematic Function Recommendation Process for Data-Driven Product and Service Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a systematic function recommendation process (FRP) to recommend new functions to an existing product and service. Function plays a vital role in mapping user needs to design parameters (DPs) under ... -
An Innovative Approach to Detect Isomorphism in Planar and Geared Kinematic Chains Using Graph Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Detection of isomorphism in planar and geared kinematic chains (GKCs) is an interesting area since many years. Enumeration of planar and geared kinematic chains becomes easy only when isomorphism problem is resolved ... -
Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The rapid rise in technologies for data collection has created an unmatched opportunity to advance the use of data-rich tools for lifecycle decision-making. However, the usefulness of these technologies is limited by the ... -
Multilevel Flow-Based Markov Clustering for Design Structure Matrices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)For decomposition and integration of systems, one needs extensive knowledge of system structure. A design structure matrix (DSM) model provides a simple, compact, and visual representation of dependencies between system ... -
Exploring Effective Change Propagation in a Product Family Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Product family (PF) design is a widely used strategy in the industry, as it allows meeting diverse design requirements. Change propagation in any PF is difficult to predict. Consequently, while numerous design change ... -
Identification of Performance Requirements for Design of Smartphones Based on Analysis of the Collected Operating Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In order to overcome the problems due to subjective judgments in the traditional product requirement acquisition techniques based on the “users’ voices,” a new data-based approach is developed in this research to identify ... -
Predicting Future Importance of Product Features Based on Online Customer Reviews
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Previous studies conducted customer surveys based on questionnaires and interviews, and the survey data were then utilized to analyze product features. In recent years, online customer reviews on products became extremely ... -
V4PCS: Volumetric 4PCS Algorithm for Global Registration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)With the advances in three-dimensional (3D) scanning and sensing technologies, massive human-related data are now available and create many applications in data-driven design. Similarity identification is one of the basic ... -
Concept Clustering in Design Teams: A Comparison of Human and Machine Clustering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Concept clustering is an important element of the product development process. The process of reviewing multiple concepts provides a means of communicating concepts developed by individual team members and by the team as ... -
Modeling the Variability of Glenoid Geometry in Intact and Osteoarthritic Shoulders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The objective of this research is to model the geometric variability of the glenoid of the scapula. The glenoid is the “socket” component of the “ball and socket” connection of the shoulder joint. The model must capture ... -
Mining Process Heuristics From Designer Action Data via Hidden Markov Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Configuration design problems, characterized by the assembly of components into a final desired solution, are common in engineering design. Various theoretical approaches have been offered for solving configuration type ... -
A Convolutional Neural Network Model for Predicting a Product's Function, Given Its Form
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Quantifying the ability of a digital design concept to perform a function currently requires the use of costly and intensive solutions such as computational fluid dynamics. To mitigate these challenges, the authors of this ...