Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Design Feedback Modality in Design for Manufacturability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The early conceptual design phase often focuses on functional requirements, with limited consideration of the manufacturing processes needed to turn design engineers' conceptual models into physical products. Increasingly, ... -
Designing for Additive Manufacturing: Lightweighting Through Topology Optimization Enables Lunar Spacecraft
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)An end-to-end development approach for space flight qualified additive manufacturing (AM) components is presented and demonstrated with a case study consisting of a system of five large, light-weight, topologically optimized ... -
The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have become integral to modern prototyping and manufacturing. Therefore, guidelines for using AM are necessary to help users new to the technology. Many others have proposed useful ... -
Displacement Analysis of Foldable V-Polyhedra Based on Dual Quaternions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)V-polyhedra is a Kokotsakis-type flat foldable rigid origami with increasing application in the engineering field. Currently, researches on origami mainly focused on foldability and mobility. In order to apply V-polyhedra ... -
Detection of Degenerate Structure in Single Degree-of-Freedom Planetary Gear Trains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Graph theory is a powerful tool in structural synthesis and analysis of planetary gear trains (PGTs). In this paper, a new algorithm has been developed for detecting degenerate structure in planetary gear trains. The ... -
Four-Dimensional Printing: Design and Fabrication of Smooth Curved Surface Using Controlled Self-Folding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Traditional origami structures fold along predefined hinges, and the neighboring facets of the hinges are folded to transform planar surfaces into three-dimensional (3D) shapes. In this study, we present a new self-folding ... -
Cyber-Empathic Design: A Data-Driven Framework for Product Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A critical task in product design is mapping information from consumer to design space. Currently, this process largely depends on designers identifying and mapping psychological and consumer level factors to engineered ... -
A Generalized Hypoid Gear Synthesized With Common Crown Rack Positioned Between Pinion and Gear Blanks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A new hypoid gearing using a common crown rack is introduced. The proposed hypoid gear has no unloaded gear transmission error. The common crown rack is located at a neutral position between the pinion and gear blanks. An ... -
Creative Contributions of the Methods of Inventive Principles of TRIZ and BioTRIZ to Problem Solving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This study compares the potential of the methods of inventive principles (IPR) of TRIZ (MIPT) and BioTRIZ (MIPB) in relation to stimulating creativity in problem solving. The two methods were applied to different issues ... -
Understanding Design Decisions Under Competition Using Games With Information Acquisition and a Behavioral Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The primary motivation in this paper is to understand decision-making in design under competition from both prescriptive and descriptive perspectives. Engineering design is often carried out under competition from other ... -
Studying the Optimal Layout of Topological Graphs to Facilitate the Automatic Sketching of Kinematic Chains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The sketching of kinematic chains is important in the conceptual design of mechanisms. In general, the process of sketching kinematic chains can be divided into two steps, namely sketching topological graphs and converting ... -
Automated Synthesis of Passive Dynamic Brachiating Robots Using a Simulation-Driven Graph Grammar Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Passive dynamic systems have the advantage over conventional robotic systems that they do not require actuators and control. Brachiating, in particular, involves the swinging motion of an animal from one branch to the next. ... -
Capturing Human Sequence-Learning Abilities in Configuration Design Tasks Through Markov Chains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Designers often search for new solutions by iteratively adapting a current design. By engaging in this search, designers not only improve solution quality but also begin to learn what operational patterns might improve the ... -
Automatic Enumeration of Feasible Kinematic Diagrams for Split Hybrid Configurations With a Single Planetary Gear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Most of the prior studies on power-split hybrid electric vehicle's (PS-HEV) design focused on the powertrain configuration optimization. Yet, depicting the selected configuration is highly required for further design steps, ... -
Microstructure Representation and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials Via Deep Belief Network for Computational Material Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) aims to accelerate optimal design of complex material systems by integrating material science and design automation. For tractable ICME, it is required that (1) a ... -
Optimal Design of Panel Reinforcements With Ribs Made of Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The stiffness of plate structures can be significantly improved by adding reinforcing ribs. In this paper, we are concerned with the stiffening of panels using ribs made of constant-thickness plates. These ribs are common ... -
Environmental Evaluation of Product Design Alternatives: The Role of Consumer's Repair Behavior and Deterioration of Critical Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Consumers might be willing to repair their broken devices as long as the associated repair costs do not exceed an undesirable threshold. However, in many cases, the technological obsolescence actuates consumers to retire ... -
Modeling and Analysis of a Precise Multibeam Flexural Pivot
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The center shift, a common problem existing in rotating flexural pivots, is diminished in a multibeam flexural pivot by the internal interaction among these beams. The objectives of this paper are to develop a model for ... -
Symmetry-Based Transformable and Foldable Plate Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a novel family of modular flat-foldable rigid plate structures composed by assemblies of 4R-linkages. First, in the field of foldable plates, the proposed system is characterized by being not only ... -
An Approach to Evaluate the Profitability of Component Commonality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Commonality or the use of same components (parts, assemblies, or subsystems) among multiple products can reduce component inventory and simplify processes and logistics while accommodating variations in product demand. ...