Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Cutting Tool Parameters of Cylindrical Skiving Cutter With Sharpening Angle for Internal Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Gear skiving is a technique proposed a long time ago for cutting internal gears at high productivity. Until recently, many problems have prevented its widespread use. With current technological breakthroughs, however, ... -
Brass Instruments Design Using Physics-Based Sound Simulation Models and Surrogate-Assisted Derivative-Free Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a method for design optimization of brass wind instruments. The shape of a trumpet's bore is optimized to improve intonation using a physics-based sound simulation model. This physics-based model consists ... -
An Outcrossing Rate Model and Its Efficient Calculation for Time-Dependent System Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Time-dependent reliability problems widely appear in the engineering practice when the material properties of the structure deteriorate in time or random loading modeled as random processes is involved. Among existing ... -
Compliance Synthesis of CSFH MEMS-Based Microgrippers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In the last decades, grippers have been employed extensively at the microscale, for example, in microbiology and in microassembly. In these fields, specifically, it is essential to improve the performance of these systems ... -
Design and Mobility Analysis of Large Deployable Mechanisms Based on Plane-Symmetric Bricard Linkage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, a class of large deployable mechanisms constructed by plane-symmetric Bricard linkages is presented. The plane-symmetric Bricard linkage is a closed-loop overconstrained spatial mechanism composed of six ... -
Stability and Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using Entropy Properties of Left and Right Singular Vectors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a novel approach to determine the stability space of nonlinear, uncertain dynamic systems that obviates the traditional eigenvalue approach and the accompanying linearizing approximations. In the new ... -
Reliability-Based Design Optimization Using Confidence-Based Model Validation for Insufficient Experimental Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The conventional reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) methods assume that a simulation model is able to represent the real physics accurately. However, this assumption may not always hold as the simulation model ... -
Improving the Performance of the Augmented Lagrangian Coordination: Decomposition Variants and Dual Residuals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The augmented Lagrangian coordination (ALC), as an effective coordination method for decomposition-based optimization, offers significant flexibility by providing different variants when solving nonhierarchically decomposed ... -
Inspiration and Fixation: The Influences of Example Designs and System Properties in Idea Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)When tackling problems, designers might be inspired by different sources, whether concrete or abstract. The more concrete sources often comprise representations of potential solutions or examples of existing designs. The ... -
Theory and Application on Power-Cycling Variable Transmission System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Hydrodynamic drives, hydraulic drives, and friction drives have the common characteristics of continuously variable ratio but lower efficiency in comparison with gear meshing drive. A novel method for the design of ... -
A Design Method for Orthopedic Plates Based on Surface Features
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Matching of orthopedic plates and bony surfaces does not have a high certainty of success because bone anatomy differs among individuals. Considering that surfaces of both orthopedic plates and bones manifest themselves ... -
Nonlinear Assembly Tolerance Design for Spatial Mechanisms Based on Reliability Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Assembly tolerance design for spatial mechanisms is a complex engineering problem that involves a highly nonlinear dimension chain equation and challenges in simplifying the spatial mechanism matrix equation. To address ... -
Sequential Multi-Objective Optimization for Lubrication System of Gasoline Engines With Bilevel Optimization Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The lubrication system is one of the most important subsystems in gasoline internal combustion engines (ICEs), which provides hydrodynamic lubrication for friction pairs. The performance of the lubrication system affects ... -
A Goal-Oriented, Sequential, Inverse Design Method for the Horizontal Integration of a Multistage Hot Rod Rolling System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The steel manufacturing process is characterized by the requirement of expeditious development of high quality products at low cost through the effective use of available resources. Identifying solutions that meet the ... -
Probabilistic Factor Graph Based Approach for Automatic Material Assignments to Three-Dimensional Objects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)There are strong correlations between material assignment, shape, and functionality of a part in an overall product/assembly. However, these strong correlations are rarely exploited for automated material assignment. We ... -
Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Alternative Manufacturing Methods on Aeroengine Component Lifing Decisions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Static structural aeroengine components are typically designed for full lifetime operation. Under this assumption, efforts to reduce weight in order to improve the performance result in structural designs that necessitate ... -
A Systematic Method for Developing Harmonic Cantilevers for Atomic Force Microscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper proposes a method for developing harmonic cantilevers for tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM). The natural frequencies of an AFM cantilever are tuned by inserting gridiron holes with specific sizes and ... -
Control of Flow Limitation in Flexible Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper proposes a new Starling resistor architecture to control flow limitation in flexible tubes by introducing a needle valve to restrict inlet flow. The new architecture is able to separately control the activation ... -
Cost Effects of Modular Product Family Structures: Methods and Quantification of Impacts to Support Decision Making
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Customer demands and global markets prompt companies to offer increasing product variety. The use of modular product structures is a possible strategy for providing the necessary external variety to the market and reducing ... -
A Particle Filter Approach for Identifying Tire Model Parameters From Full-Scale Experimental Tests
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Mathematical models simulating the handling behavior of passenger cars are extensively used at a design stage for evaluating the effects of new structural solutions or control systems. The main source of uncertainty in ...