Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Automatic Facial Feature Extraction for Predicting Designers' Comfort With Engineering Equipment During Prototype Creation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Designers frequently utilize engineering equipment to create physical prototypes during the iterative concept generation and prototyping phases of design. Currently, evaluating designers' efficiency during prototype creation ... -
Design and Characterization of a Continuous Rotary Minimotor Based on Shape-Memory Wires and Overrunning Clutches1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)An attractive but little explored field of application of the shape-memory technology is the area of rotary actuators, in particular for generating endless motion. This paper presents a miniature rotary motor based on ... -
Thumb Configuration and Performance Evaluation for Dexterous Robotic Hand Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The force and/or motion transmissibility and the analyticity of inverse kinematics for a thumb mechanism depend on thumb configuration. This paper presents a general framework for the thumb configuration and performance ... -
Function Module Partition for Complex Products and Systems Based on Weighted and Directed Complex Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Modular design is an effective approach to shorten lead-time and reduce cost for development of complex products and systems (CoPS). Because the physical details of the product are not available at the conceptual design ... -
Exploring Product Solution Differences Due to Choice Model Selection in the Presence of Noncompensatory Decisions With Conjunctive Screening Rules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Research in market-based product design has often used compensatory preference models that assume an additive part-worth rule. These additive models have a simple, usable form and their parameters can be estimated using ... -
On the Incompressibility of Cylindrical Origami Patterns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The art and science of folding intricate three-dimensional structures out of paper has occupied artists, designers, engineers, and mathematicians for decades, culminating in the design of deployable structures and mechanical ... -
Architecture, Performance, and Investment in Product Development Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Firms engaging in product development (PD) face the imperative problem of allocating scarce development resources to a multitude of opportunities. In this paper, we propose a mathematical formulation to optimize PD investment ... -
Determinate Design and Analytical Analysis of a Class of Symmetrical Flexure Guiding Mechanisms for Linear Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper designs and analyses a class of single-axis translational flexure guiding mechanisms for linear actuators. The proposed flexure mechanisms have symmetrical configurations to eliminate parasitic motion for better ... -
Autonomous Electric Vehicle Sharing System Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Car sharing services promise “green” transportation systems. Two vehicle technologies offer marketable, sustainable sharing: autonomous vehicles (AVs) eliminate customer requirements for car pick-up and return, and battery ... -
An Experimental Investigation of Digging Via Localized Fluidization, Tested With RoboClam: A Robot Inspired by Atlantic Razor Clams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The Atlantic razor clam, Ensis directus, burrows underwater by expanding and contracting its valves to fluidize the surrounding soil. Its digging method uses an order of magnitude less energy than would be needed to push ... -
Special Issue: Designing for Additive Manufacturing
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Generalized Radial Basis Function-Based High-Dimensional Model Representation Handling Existing Random Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The radial basis function-based high-dimensional model representation (RBF–HDMR) is very promising as a metamodel for high dimensional costly simulation-based functions. But in the modeling procedure, it requires well-structured ... -
A Comprehensive Contact Analysis of Planetary Roller Screw Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A comprehensive contact analysis model to determine the contact positions and clearances of mating thread surfaces in the planetary roller screw mechanism (PRSM) is proposed in this paper. By introducing a three-dimensional ... -
Special Issue: Data-Driven Design (D3)
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A Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm for the Generalized Inverse Phase Stability Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Researchers have used the (calculation of phase diagram) CALPHAD method to solve the forward phase stability problem of mapping from specific thermodynamic conditions (material composition, temperature, pressure, etc.) to ... -
Enhanced Hypocycloid Gear Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engine Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This study investigates the incorporation of an “enhanced” hypocycloid gear mechanism (HGM) in the design and development of internal combustion engine applications. The design incorporates a uniquely geared drive that ... -
An Experimental Study on the Influence That Failure Number, Specialization, and Controls Have on Confidence in Predicting System Failures1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Design reviews are typically used for three types of design activities: (1) identifying errors, (2) assessing the impact of the errors, and (3) suggesting solutions for the errors. This experimental study focuses on ... -
Sustainable Design-Oriented Level Set Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a novel sustainable design-oriented level set topology optimization method. It addresses the sustainability issue in product family design, which means an end-of-life (EoL) product can be remanufactured ... -
A Comparison of Network-Based Metrics of Behavioral Degradation in Complex Engineered Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)It has been assumed, but not yet tested, that the topological disintegration of networks is relatable to degradations in complex engineered system behavior and that extant network metrics are capable of capturing these ... -
A Mortar-Based Mesh Interface for Hybrid Finite-Element/Lumped-Parameter Gear Dynamic Models—Applications to Thin-Rimmed Geared Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)An original hybrid gear model is introduced, which combines lumped parameter and finite elements along with a specific interface aimed at coupling mismatched discrete models. A mortar-based interface is presented, which ...