Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Modeling the Time Varying Advantages of a Remanufactured Product: Is “Reman†Better Than “Brand New�1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In order for remanufacturers to succeed in the market, it is important for them to be capable of ensuring in advance that a product is suitable for remanufacturing and that a remanufactured product will provide greater ... -
Simulation Modeling of Consumers' Participation in Product Take Back Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)As electronic waste (ewaste) becomes one of the fastest growing environmental concerns, remanufacturing may be a promising solution. However, the profitability of takeback systems is hampered by several factors, including ... -
Relationship Between Product Aesthetic Subject Preference and Quantified Gestalt Principles in Automobile Wheel Rims
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Birkhoff proposed that order divided by complexity is a formula for esthetic measurement. In that context, this work proposes to measure order with a method to quantify Gestalt principles in 2D product representations. ... -
A Stiffness Formulation for Spline Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Due to the lack of knowledge in terms of their flexibility and deformation, spline joints are typically assumed to be rigid in dynamic models of gearboxes, transmissions, and drivetrains. As various dynamic phenomena are ... -
Manufacturing Process for a Face Gear Drive With Local Bearing Contact and Controllable Unloaded Meshing Performance Based on Ease Off Surface Modification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A manufacturing process for fabricating easeoff surfaces of a face gear drive that is provided with controllable unloaded meshing performance and local bearing contact is proposed. In order to control the unloaded meshing ... -
An Experimental Study and Model Determination of the Mechanical Stiffness of Paper Folds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Over the past few decades, folding paper has extended beyond the origami deployable applications to reach the engineering field. Nevertheless, mechanical information about paper behavior is still lacking, especially during ... -
A Mixed Interval Arithmetic/Affine Arithmetic Approach for Robust Design Optimization With Interval Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Uncertainty is ubiquitous throughout engineering design processes. Robust optimization (RO) aims to find optimal solutions that are relatively insensitive to input uncertainty. In this paper, a new approach is presented ... -
Six Dimensional Compliance Analysis and Validation of Orthoplanar Springs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper for the first time investigates the sixdimensional compliance characteristics of orthoplanar springs using a compliancematrix based approach, and validates them with both finite element (FEM) simulation and ... -
Global Synthesis for Face Milled Spiral Bevel Gears With Zero Transmission Errors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Local synthesis establishes a relationship between the relative motion and the local geometry properties of gear and pinion surfaces at one single (mean) point. Theoretically, local synthesis design of spiral bevel and ... -
Designing Multi Axis Force–Torque Sensors by Minimizing the Amplitudes of Their Nonlinear Displacements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Compliant multiaxis force–torque sensors play a crucial role in many emerging robotic applications, such as telemanipulation, haptic devices and humanrobot physical interaction. In order to synthesize the compliant ... -
Conditions on the Cable Routing Matrix for Wrench Closure of Multilink Cable Driven Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Wrenchclosure is an important property of cabledriven parallel manipulators (CDPMs), representing the ability to generate wrench in any direction by positive cable forces. For single link CDPMs, it is well known that ... -
A Cost Driven Design Methodology for Additive Manufactured Variable Platforms in Product Families
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Additive manufacturing (AM) has evolved from prototyping to functional part fabrication for a wide range of applications. Challenges exist in developing new product design methodologies to utilize AMenabled design freedoms ... -
Motorcycle Tire Modeling for the Study of Tire–Rim Interaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)For the lightweight design of the wheel rim of motorcycles, the knowledge of the way in which contact forces are transmitted by the tire is of crucial importance. In this paper, an analytical model of the tire is developed ... -
Resilience Modeling and Quantification for Engineered Systems Using Bayesian Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The concept of engineering resilience has received a prevalent attention from academia as well as industry because it contributes a new means of thinking about how to withstand against disruptions and recover properly. ... -
Longitudinal Analysis of Mechanism and Machine Theory: Geospatial Productivity, Journal Citation Networks, and Researcher Communities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper presents a longitudinal analysis through bibliometrics from three perspectives: geospatial analysis of research productivity, citation network analysis of journals, and top productive researchers with research ... -
Theoretical Method for Calculating the Unit Curve of Gear Integrated Error
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A theoretical method is proposed in this paper to calculate the unit curve of gear integrated error (GIE). The calculated GIE unit curve includes the quasistatic transmission error (TE) curves of the approach stage, the ... -
Modeling the Semantic Structure of Textually Derived Learning Content and its Impact on Recipients' Response States
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In the United States, the greatest decline in the number of students in the STEM education pipeline occurs at the university level, where students, who were initially interested in STEM fields, dropout or move on to other ... -
A Novel Sampling Technique for Probabilistic Static Coverage Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Resource allocation in the presence of constraints is an important activity in many systems engineering problems such as surveillance, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, and cooperative task performance. ... -
Parameterized Design Optimization of a Magnetohydrodynamic Liquid Metal Active Cooling Concept
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The success of modelbased multifunctional material design efforts relies on the proper development of multiphysical models and advanced optimization algorithms. This paper addresses both in the context of a structure that ... -
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation and Topology Optimization in Three Dimensions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Anisotropic mesh adaptation has been used to accelerate computation in several engineering fields, and we show that it can also be used for topology optimization. We use a combination of filtered continuous sensitivities ...