Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Bio-Inspired Heuristic Network Configuration in Air Transportation System-of-Systems Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Previous work in air transportation system-of-systems (ATSoSs) design optimization considered integrated aircraft sizing, fleet allocation, and route network configuration. The associated nested multidisciplinary formulation ... -
Topology Optimization of Multicell Tubes Under Out-of-Plane Crushing Using a Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Multicell tubal structures have generated increasing interest in engineering design for their excellent energy-absorbing characteristics when crushed through severe plastic deformation. To make more efficient use of the ... -
A Methodology to Synthesize Gearbox and Control Design for Increased Power Production and Blade Root Stress Mitigation in a Small Wind Turbine1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Large wind turbines typically have variable rotor speed capability that increases power production. However, the cost of this technology is more significant for small turbines, which have the highest cost-per-watt of energy ... -
A Novel Lengthwise Crowning Method for Face-Hobbed Straight Bevel Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A recent addition to the many milling processes used in manufacturing to cut straight bevel gears (SBGs) is a new face-hobbing (FH) method that uses a virtual hypocycloid straight-lined mechanism to produce straight-lined ... -
Computer-Based “Mental Set” Tasks: An Alternative Approach to Studying Design Fixation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The term “design fixation” refers to a phenomenon where designers unknowingly limit the space within which they search for solutions. In an attempt to study this phenomenon experimentally, researchers typically set ... -
Characterization and Design of Functional Quasi-Random Nanostructured Materials Using Spectral Density Function
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Quasi-random nanostructures are playing an increasingly important role in developing advanced material systems with various functionalities. Current development of functional quasi-random nanostructured material systems ... -
A Comprehensive Survey on Microgrippers Design: Operational Strategy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This article provides an overview of the operational strategies adopted in microgrippers design. The review covers microgrippers recently proposed in Literature, some of which have been systematically presented in a companion ... -
Sensitivity Developments for RBDO With Dependent Input Variable and Varying Input Standard Deviation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), dependent input random variables and varying standard deviation (STD) should be considered to correctly describe input distribution model. The input dependency and varying ... -
Simulation-Based Computational Design Synthesis Using Automated Generation of Simulation Models From Concept Model Graphs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Current approaches in computational design synthesis (CDS) enable the human designer to explore large solution spaces for engineering design problems. To extend this to support designers in embodiment and detail design, ... -
Topological Synthesis of Epicyclic Gear Trains Using Vertex Incidence Polynomial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Epicyclic gear trains (EGTs) are used in the mechanical energy transmission systems where high velocity ratios are needed in a compact space. It is necessary to eliminate duplicate structures in the initial stages of ... -
Village Drill: A Case Study in Engineering for Global Development With Five Years of Data Post Market-Introduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a case study in engineering for global development. It introduces the Village Drill, which is an engineered product that has—5 years after its introduction to the market—enabled hundreds of thousands ... -
Enumeration of Architectures With Perfect Matchings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this article, a class of architecture design problems is explored with perfect matchings (PMs). A perfect matching in a graph is a set of edges such that every vertex is present in exactly one edge. The perfect matching ... -
Design of Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Printed Scaffolds Considering Mechanical and Biological Factors for Bone Tissue Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Computational approaches have great potential for aiding clinical product development by finding promising candidate designs prior to expensive testing and clinical trials. Here, an approach for designing multilevel bone ... -
Searching Multibranch Propagation Paths of Assembly Variation Based on Geometric Tolerances and Assembly Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Assembly variation should be predicted accurately in the design process of a product to ensure the performance of the assembled parts. One important issue in predicting assembly variation is to search propagation paths ... -
Estimating Optimized Stress Bounds in Early Stage Design of Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Design synthesis of distributed compliant mechanisms is often a two-stage process involving (a) conceptual topology synthesis and a subsequent (b) refinement stage to meet strength and manufacturing specifications. The ... -
A Comprehensive Survey on Microgrippers Design: Mechanical Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)An atlas of 98 microgrippers that recently appeared in Literature is herein presented by using four different forms: (a) a restyled layout of the original mechanical structure, (b) its corresponding pseudorigid body model ... -
Function Prediction at One Inaccessible Point Using Converging Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The focus of this paper is a strategy for making a prediction at a point where a function cannot be evaluated. The key idea is to take advantage of the fact that prediction is needed at one point and not in the entire ... -
Enhancing Full-Film Lubrication Performance Via Arbitrary Surface Texture Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Minimizing energy loss and improving system load capacity and compactness are important objectives for fluid power systems. Recent studies reveal that microtextured surfaces can reduce friction in full-film lubrication, ... -
The Kinematic Principle for Designing Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid Origami Mechanisms: Challenges and Opportunities1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) origami nanotechnology is a recently developed self-assembly process for design and fabrication of complex three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures using DNA as a functional material. This paper ...