Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Dynamic Data-Driven Design of Lean Premixed Combustors for Thermoacoustically Stable Operations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Prediction of thermoacoustic instabilities is a critical issue for both design and operation of combustion systems. Sustained high-amplitude pressure and temperature oscillations may cause stresses in structural components ... -
Beyond the Known: Detecting Novel Feasible Domains Over an Unbounded Design Space
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)To solve a design problem, sometimes it is necessary to identify the feasible design space. For design spaces with implicit constraints, sampling methods are usually used. These methods typically bound the design space; ... -
A Taylor Expansion Approach for Computing Structural Performance Variation From Population-Based Shape Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Rapid advancement of sensor technologies and computing power has led to wide availability of massive population-based shape data. In this paper, we present a Taylor expansion-based method for computing structural performance ... -
An Integrated Approach for Design Improvement Based on Analysis of Time-Dependent Product Usage Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)With the recent advances in information gathering techniques, product performances and environment/operation conditions can be monitored, and product usage data, including time-dependent product performance feature data ... -
Data-Driven Styling: Augmenting Intuition in the Product Design Process Using Holistic Styling Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Styling or product appearance is well known for holding great influence on its differentiation, branding, and overall success in the market. However, the styling process is difficult due to the intuitive and subjective way ... -
Risk-Adaptive Set-Based Design and Applications to Shaping a Hydrofoil
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The paper presents a framework for set-based design under uncertainty and demonstrates its viability through designing a super-cavitating hydrofoil of an ultrahigh speed vessel. The framework achieves designs that safely ... -
Ring-Based Stiffening Flexure Applied as a Load Cell With High Resolution and Large Force Range
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper applies linear elastic theory and Castigliano's first theorem to design nonlinear (stiffening) flexures used as load cells with both large force range and large resolution. Low stiffness at small forces causes ... -
The Transfer Matrix Metamodel for Dynamic Systems With Arbitrary Time-Variant Inputs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper addresses the problem of mapping a vector of input variables (corresponding to discrete samples from a time-varying input) to a vector of output variables (discrete samples of the time-dependent response). This ... -
Learning an Optimization Algorithm Through Human Design Iterations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Solving optimal design problems through crowdsourcing faces a dilemma: On the one hand, human beings have been shown to be more effective than algorithms at searching for good solutions of certain real-world problems with ... -
Power–Velocity Process Design Charts for Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A current issue in metal-based additive manufacturing (AM) is achieving consistent, desired process outcomes in manufactured parts. When process outcomes such as strength, density, or precision need to meet certain ... -
Optimal Design of Nonlinear Multimaterial Structures for Crashworthiness Using Cluster Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This study presents an efficient multimaterial design optimization algorithm that is suitable for nonlinear structures. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps: conceptual design generation, clustering, and ... -
Design of Dynamic Systems Using Surrogate Models of Derivative Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Optimization of dynamic systems often requires system simulation. Several important classes of dynamic system models have computationally expensive time derivative functions, resulting in simulations that are significantly ... -
Basic Study on Calculation of Cutting Forces Useful for Reducing Vibration in Skiving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In order to improve the accuracy of skived gears by means of reducing vibrations that are often observed during the cutting process, a simple model for calculating the cutting forces of skiving process is presented and ... -
Revisiting Generation and Meshing Properties of Beveloid Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The teeth of ordinary spur and helical gears are generated by a (virtual) rack provided with planar generating surfaces. The resulting tooth surface shapes are a circle-involute cylinder in the case of spur gears, and a ... -
Special Section: Designing for Additive Manufacturing: Recent Advances in Design for Additive Manufacturing
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A Test Part for Evaluating the Accuracy and Resolution of a Polymer Powder Bed Fusion Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Additive manufacturing (AM) has many potential industrial applications because highly complex parts can be fabricated with little or no tooling cost. One barrier to widespread use of AM, however, is that many designers ... -
Redesigning a Reaction Control Thruster for Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study in Design for Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Prior research has shown that powder-bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) can be used to make functional, end-use components from powdered metallic alloys, such as Inconel® 718 superalloy. However, these end-use ... -
A Survey of Modeling of Lattice Structures Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The lattice structure is a type of cellular material with trusslike frames which can be optimized for specific loading conditions. The fabrication of its intricate architecture is restricted by traditional manufacturing ... -
Optimal Design of an Autotensioner in an Automotive Belt Drive System Via a Dynamic Adaptive PSO-GA
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Noise, vibration, and harshness performances are always concerns in design of an automotive belt drive system. The design problem of the automotive belt drive system requires the minimum transverse vibration of each belt ... -
Analyses of Morphological Properties of a Generalized Miura Origami Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, we generalize Miura origami and propose a method for analyzing a generalized Miura origami structure. Morphological properties of the generalized Miura origami element during the deploy motion are analyzed ...