Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Assessing Quality of User Submitted Need Statements From Large Scale Needfinding: Effects of Expertise and Group Size
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Collecting data on user needs often results in a surfeit of candidate need statements. Additional analysis is necessary to prioritize a small subset for further consideration. Previous analytic methods have been used for ... -
Product Family Design With Solution Spaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Design for optimal commonality in product families is different from design for optimal performance. While optimal performance may be achieved by the choice of appropriate design parameter values for all system components, ... -
Mutually Coordinated Visualization of Product and Supply Chain Metadata for Sustainable Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, we present a novel visualization framework for product and supply chain metadata in the context of redesignrelated decision scenarios. Our framework is based on the idea of overlaying productrelated metadata ... -
On Integration of Additive Manufacturing During the Design and Development of a Rehabilitation Robot: A Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The field of rehabilitation robotics has emerged to address the growing desire to improve therapy modalities after neurological disorders, such as a stroke. For rehabilitation robots to be successful as clinical devices, ... -
Patient Specific Clavicle Reconstruction Using Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)There is a trend toward operative treatment for certain types of clavicle fractures and these are usually treated with plate osteosynthesis. The subcutaneous location of the clavicle makes the plate fit important, but the ... -
Design Framework for Multifunctional Additive Manufacturing: Placement and Routing of Three Dimensional Printed Circuit Volumes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A framework for the design of additively manufactured (AM) multimaterial parts with embedded functional systems is presented (e.g., structure with electronic/electrical components and associated conductive paths). Two of ... -
Enhancement of Low Cycle Fatigue Performance From Tailored Microstructures Enabled by Electron Beam Melting Additive Manufacturing Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Electron beam melting (EBM) additive manufacturing (AM) technology has allowed the layerwise fabrication of parts from metal powder precursor materials that are selectively melted using an electron beam. An advantage of ... -
Four Dimensional Printing for Freeform Surfaces: Design Optimization of Origami and Kirigami Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A selffolding structure fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) can be automatically folded into a demanding threedimensional (3D) shape by actuation mechanisms such as heating. However, 3D surfaces can only be fabricated ... -
Design for Additive Manufacture of Fine Medical Instrumentation—DragonFlex Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The recently popularized domain of additive manufacturing (AM) has much to offer to medical device development, especially to the growing field of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). With the advancements in AM materials, ... -
The MechProcessor: Helping Novices Design Printable Mechanisms Across Different Printers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3Dprinting, sits at the heart of the Maker Movement—the growing desire for widerranges of people to design physical objects. However, most users that wish to design functional moving devices ... -
Design for Fiber Reinforced Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The continuously decreasing life cycle of modern products leads to new challenges for product development. Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are able to support faster development by rapid production of samples and ... -
Enhancing the Structural Performance of Additively Manufactured Objects Through Build Orientation Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Additively manufactured objects often exhibit directional dependencies in their structure due to the layered nature of the printing process. While this dependency has a significant impact on the object's functional ... -
Build Direction Effects on Microchannel Tolerance and Surface Roughness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)With the advance of additive manufacturing (AM) processes, complex designs can be created with engineering metals. One specific advantage of this greater design space is the ability to create small internal channels and ... -
Design and Manufacturing Functionally Gradient Material Objects With an Off the Shelf Three Dimensional Printer: Challenges and Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper presents the challenges and solutions encountered while designing and then printing functionally gradient material (FGM) objects using an off the shelf fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer. The printer, ... -
A Multilevel Upscaling Method for Material Characterization of Additively Manufactured Part Under Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)An integrated multiscale modeling framework that incorporates a simulationbased upscaling technique is developed and implemented for the material characterization of additively manufactured cellular structures in this ... -
Topology Optimization, Additive Layer Manufacturing, and Experimental Testing of an Air Cooled Heat Sink
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Topology optimization of an aircooled heat sink considering heat conduction plus sidesurface convection is presented. The optimization formulation is explained along with multiple design examples. A postprocessing procedure ... -
A Generalized Optimality Criteria Method for Optimization of Additively Manufactured Multimaterial Lattice Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Recent progress in additive manufacturing (AM) allows for printing customized products with multiple materials and complex geometries that could form the basis of multimaterial designs with high performance and novel ... -
An Investigation of Key Design for Additive Manufacturing Constraints in Multimaterial Three Dimensional Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The PolyJet material jetting process is uniquely qualified to create complex, multimaterial structures. However, key manufacturing constraints need to be explored and understood in order to guide designers in their use of ... -
(Re)Designing for Part Consolidation: Understanding the Challenges of Metal Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic parts provides engineers with unprecedented design freedom. This enables designers to consolidate assemblies, lightweight designs, create intricate internal geometries for enhanced ... -
Design of Stabilizing Arm Mechanisms for Carrying and Positioning Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Stabilizing arm mechanisms are used to support and position a load with minimal force from the user. Further, stabilizing arm mechanisms enable operators to stabilize the motion of the load while walking or running over ...