Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Vine Copula Based Reliability Analysis Method for Structures With Multidimensional Correlation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper proposed a vinecopulabased structural reliability analysis method which is an effective approach for performing a reliability analysis on complex multidimensional correlation problems. A joint probability ... -
Development of a Suspended Backpack for Harvesting Biomechanical Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this study, a harvesting device embedded into a suspended backpack was developed to harness part of a human's biomechanical energy and reduce dynamic force of the backpack on the carrier. The harvester utilized a spring ... -
Topology Optimization of an Automotive Tailor Welded Blank Door
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) method has been successfully applied for a wide range of topology optimization problems. In this paper, the BESO method is further extended to the optimal design ... -
Integrated Decision Making in Electric Vehicle and Charging Station Location Network Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A major barrier in consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is “range anxiety,†the concern that the vehicle will run out of power at an inopportune time. Range anxiety is caused by the current relatively low ... -
Sensitivity of Wind Farm Output to Wind Conditions, Land Configuration, and Installed Capacity, Under Different Wake Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In conventional wind farm design and optimization, analytical wake models are generally used to estimate the wakeinduced power losses. Different wake models often yield significantly dissimilar estimates of wake velocity ... -
Dual Residual for Centralized Augmented Lagrangian Coordination Based on Optimality Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Centralized augmented Lagrangian coordination (ALC) has drawn much attention due to its parallel computation capability, efficiency, and flexibility. The initial setting and update strategy of the penalty weights in this ... -
Tooth Contact Analysis for a Double Crowned Involute Helical Gear With Twist Free Tooth Flanks Generated by Dual Lead Hob Cutters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)To doublecrown an involute helical gear, a hobbing method is proposed by setting the hob's diagonal feed motion as a secondorder function of hob's traverse movement and modifying the tooth profile of hob cutter into a ... -
Optimal Design of a 2 UPR RPU Parallel Manipulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper investigates dimensional optimization of a 2UPRRPU parallel manipulator (where U is a universal joint, P a prismatic pair, and R a revolute pair). First, the kinematics and screws of the mechanism are analyzed. ... -
An Approach to Identify Six Sigma Robust Solutions of Multi/Many Objective Engineering Design Optimization Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In order to be practical, solutions of engineering design optimization problems must be robust, i.e., competent and reliable in the face of uncertainties. While such uncertainties can emerge from a number of sources ... -
Behavioral Experimentation and Game Theory in Engineering Systems Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Gametheoretic models have been used to analyze design problems ranging from multiobjective design optimization to decentralized design and from design for market systems (DFMS) to policy design. However, existing studies ... -
Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of a New Antibacklash Gear Mechanism Design for Reducing Dynamic Transmission Error
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this study, a new antibacklash gear mechanism design comprising three pinions and a rack is introduced. This mechanism offers several advantages compared to conventional antibacklash mechanisms, such as lower transmission ... -
A Machine Learning Based Design Representation Method for Designing Heterogeneous Microstructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In designing microstructural materials systems, one of the key research questions is how to represent the microstructural design space quantitatively using a descriptor set that is sufficient yet small enough to be tractable. ... -
Integrating Function and Affordance Based Design Representations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, we explore the possibility of reconciling and integrating practical affordanceand functionbased design representations. We present a classic functionbased design method and representation and argue for the ... -
Improving Students' Functional Modeling Skills: A Modeling Approach and a Scoring Rubric
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)An engineering design curriculum that introduces functional modeling methods is believed to enhance the ability to abstract complex systems, assist during the concept generation phase of design, and reduce design fixation. ... -
Mixed Efficient Global Optimization for Time Dependent Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Timedependent reliability analysis requires the use of the extreme value of a response. The extreme value function is usually highly nonlinear, and traditional reliability methods, such as the first order reliability method ... -
Reliability Based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Using Subset Simulation Analysis and Its Application in the Hydraulic Transmission Mechanism Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) can provide high reliability evaluation accuracy. However, the efficiency of the crude MCS is quite low, in large part because it is computationally expensive to evaluate a very small failure ... -
New Perspectives on Design Automation: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the ASME Design Automation Conference
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Design and Control Concept for Reconfigurable Architecture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Shapecontrol in an architectural context is expected to provide unique opportunities for buildings with enhanced functionality, flexibility, energy performance, and occupants comfort. An architectural concept is proposed ... -
Design of a Novel Multicylinder Stirling Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Stirling engines are machines based on a simple working principle and are well known for their theoretical high thermal efficiency. Technical drawbacks related to the high temperatures required for achieving high values ... -
On Rolling Resistance in Gear Transmission
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The effect of rolling resistance on the power loss during gear transmission has been studied. The resistance has been modeled by a lateral shift of the line of action of the contact force. The effect of this shift on the ...