Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Single Loop Kriging Surrogate Modeling for Time Dependent Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Current surrogate modeling methods for timedependent reliability analysis implement a doubleloop procedure, with the computation of extreme value response in the outer loop and optimization in the inner loop. The computational ... -
Analysis of Architectural Complexity for Product Family and Platform
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A product family is a set of products that are derived from common sets of parts, interfaces, and processes, known as the product platform. To reduce development time and procurement and operating costs of product platformbased ... -
Global Views on Modular Design Research: Linking Alternative Methods to Support Modular Product Family Concept Development
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings while still allowing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a multitude of product platform methods have been developed ... -
Synthesis of C0 Path Generating Contact Aided Compliant Mechanisms Using the Material Mask Overlay Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Contactaided compliant mechanisms (CCMs) are synthesized via the material mask overlay strategy (MMOS) to trace desired nonsmooth paths. MMOS employs hexagonal cells to discretize the design region and engages negative ... -
Generation of Noncircular Bevel Gears With Free Form Tooth Profile and Curvilinear Tooth Lengthwise
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Noncircular bevel gear is applied to intersecting axes, realizing given function of transmission ratio. Currently, researches are focused mainly on gear with involute tooth profile and straight tooth lengthwise, while that ... -
Adaptive Energy Optimization Toward Net Zero Energy Building Clusters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Traditionally viewed as mere energy consumers, buildings have adapted, capitalizing on smart grid technologies and distributed energy resources to efficiently use and trade energy, as evident in netzero energy buildings ... -
Synthesizing Functional Mechanisms From a Link Soup1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The synthesis of functional molecular linkages is constrained by difficulties in fabricating nanolinks of arbitrary shapes and sizes. Thus, classical mechanism synthesis methods, which assume the ability to manufacture any ... -
Predictive Model Selection for Forecasting Product Returns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)As awareness of environmental issues increases, the pressures from the public and policy makers have forced original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to consider remanufacturing as the key product design option. In order to ... -
Motion/Force Transmission Analysis of Parallel Mechanisms With Planar Closed Loop Subchains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Singularities are one of the most important issues affecting the performance of parallel mechanisms. A parallel mechanism with less than six degrees of freedom (6DOF) is classed as having lower mobility. In addition to ... -
Design of Nonoverconstrained Energy Efficient Multi Axis Servo Presses for Deep Drawing Applications1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Servoactuated presses may provide maximum pressing force at any ram position in the same manner that hydraulic presses do, while offering several benefits in terms of precision, energyconversion efficiency, and simplicity, ... -
A Multidisciplinary Framework to Model Complex Team Based Product Development
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper investigates a multidisciplinary framework that simulates design decisions in a complex teambased product development in which engineers simultaneously work on a team project and individual projects. The proposed ... -
A Bayesian Sampling Method for Product Feature Extraction From Large Scale Textual Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The authors of this work propose an algorithm that determines optimal search keyword combinations for querying online product data sources in order to minimize identification errors during the product feature extraction ... -
A Mixed Integer Linear Programing Formulation for Unrestricted Wind Farm Layout Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper presents a novel mixed integer linear programing (MILP) formulation for finding the optimal layout of a fixed number of identical turbines that maximizes wind farm power generation. Previous MILP formulations ... -
An Approach to Designing Origami Adapted Aerospace Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)An approach to designing products based on adapting patterns and behaviors from origami is presented. The approach is illustrated by showing its capability for developing mechanism applications for aerospacebased systems. ... -
Design and Testing of a Highly Reconfigurable Fixture With Lockable Robotic Arms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The paper describes an innovative fixture created within the AUTORECON project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Program. The fixture is designed to respond to the automotive industry's needs of high modularity ... -
Polytope Sector Based Synthesis and Analysis of Microstructural Architectures With Tunable Thermal Conductivity and Expansion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The aim of this paper is to (1) introduce an approach, called polytope sectorbased synthesis (PSS), for synthesizing 2D or 3D microstructural architectures that exhibit a desired bulkproperty directionality (e.g., isotropic, ... -
Erratum: “Sensitivity of Vehicle Market Share Predictions to Discrete Choice Model Specification†[Journal of Mechanical Design, 136(12), 121402]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Finally, we observe that some of the models with the best predictive accuracy have coefficients with unexpected signs—likely biased due to correlation with unobserved attributes. Despite good prediction accuracy in ... -
Drawing Inspiration From Human Design Teams for Better Search and Optimization: The Heterogeneous Simulated Annealing Teams Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Insights uncovered by research in design cognition are often utilized to develop methods used by human designers; in this work, such insights are used to inform and improve computational methodologies. This paper introduces ... -
Setting Material Function Design Targets for Linear Viscoelastic Materials and Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Rheologically complex materials are described by functionvalued properties with dependence on a timescale (linear viscoelasticity), input amplitude (nonlinear material behavior), or more generally both (nonlinear ... -
Hierarchical Design of Negative Stiffness Metamaterials Using a Bayesian Network Classifier1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A setbased approach is presented for exploring multilevel design problems. The approach is applied to design negative stiffness metamaterials with mechanical stiffness and loss properties that surpass those of conventional ...