Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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An Investigation on the Implications of Design Process Phases on Artifact Novelty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Innovation, including engineering innovation, is essential for economic growth. Currently, while most design practices in engineering education focus on aspects of “good†technical design, elements of innovation may ... -
Sensitivity Analysis in Quantified Interval Constraint Satisfaction Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Interval is an alternative to probability distribution in quantifying uncertainty for sensitivity analysis (SA) when there is a lack of data to fit a distribution with good confidence. It only requires the information of ... -
An Optimization Approach Toward a Robust Design of Six Degrees of Freedom Haptic Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This work presents an optimization approach for the robust design of six degrees of freedom (DOF) haptic devices. Our objective is to find the optimal values for a set of design parameters that maximize the kinematic, ... -
Determining Granularity of Changeable Manufacturing Systems Using Changeable Design Structure Matrix and Cladistics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Changeable manufacturing systems offer a high level of adaptability and agility in response to product and market changes. They are characterized by modularity and scalability, which are derivatives of system granularity. ... -
Systematic Design Optimization of the Metamaterial Shear Beam of a Nonpneumatic Wheel for Low Rolling Resistance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Systematic engineering of components that employ metamaterials has expanded the mechanical design field in recent years. Yet, topology optimization remains a burdensome tool to utilize within a systematic engineering ... -
Architectural Synthesis and Analysis of Dual Cellular Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composites for Multifunctional Metastructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Recently, a cellular structure concept based on fluidic flexible matrix composites (F2MCs) was investigated for its potential of concurrently achieving multiple adaptive functions. Such structure consists of two fluidically ... -
Acknowledging JMD's Associate and Guest Editors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Once a paper is submitted to Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD), and after successfully passing an initial screening, it is assigned to one of our AEs, or GEs in the case of a special issue. Subsequently, an AE or GE takes ... -
Optimization of a Wind Integrated Microgrid System With Equipment Sizing and Dispatch Strategy Under Resource Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The global quest for energy sustainability has motivated the development of efficiently transforming various renewable natural resources, such as wind, into energy. This transformation requires longterm planning, and we ... -
An Approach to Study Associations Between Design Concepts and Design Outcomes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper proposes an approach to investigate associations between design concepts and design outcomes. In the proposed approach, three deliverables (concept sketches, proofofconcept (POC) prototypes, and final products) ... -
Analyzing Drive Cycles for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Simulation and Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)System design tools including simulation and component optimization are an increasingly important component of the vehicle design process, placing more emphasis on early stages of design to reduce redesign and enable more ... -
Mechanical Behavior and Performance of the Onager
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, the mechanical behavior and performance of the onager, an ancient war machine, are analyzed. This study is based on torsional motors, as previously described. Because the onager has been investigated very ... -
A Review on Compliant Joints and Rigid Body Constant Velocity Universal Joints Toward the Design of Compliant Homokinetic Couplings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper presents for the first time a literature survey toward the design of compliant homokinetic couplings. The rigidlinkagebased constant velocity universal joints (CV joints) available from literature were studied, ... -
Effects of Tooth Indexing Errors on Load Distribution and Tooth Load Sharing of Splines Under Combined Loading Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, influences of tooth indexing errors on load distribution and tooth load sharing of spline joints are investigated by modifying an existing semianalytical load distribution model for sidefit involute splines. ... -
An Alternative Approach to the Definition of Profile Modifications in High Contact Ratio Spur Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)An alternative formulation for the definition of profile modifications in highcontactratio (HCR) spur gears is presented which makes it possible to select optimum relief with regard to transmission error (TE) fluctuations ... -
Application of Polynomial Chaos Expansion to Tolerance Analysis and Synthesis in Compliant Assemblies Subject to Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Statistical tolerance analysis and synthesis in assemblies subject to loading are of significant importance to optimized manufacturing. Modeling the effects of loads on mechanical assemblies in tolerance analysis typically ... -
Time Dependent Reliability Analysis Using the Total Probability Theorem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A new reliability analysis method is proposed for timedependent problems with explicit in time limitstate functions of input random variables and input random processes using the total probability theorem and the concept ... -
Hinge Free Compliant Mechanism Design Via the Topological Level Set
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The objective of this paper is to introduce and demonstrate a new method for the topology optimization of compliant mechanisms. The proposed method relies on exploiting the topological derivative, and exhibits numerous ... -
A Novel Transformable Structural Mechanism for Doubly Ruled Hypar Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A novel structural mechanism (SM) that is capable of transforming itself into various hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar) geometries is introduced in this paper. Composed of straight bars and novel joint types, the SM is designed ... -
When Crowdsourcing Fails: A Study of Expertise on Crowdsourced Design Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Crowdsourced evaluation is a promising method of evaluating engineering design attributes that require human input. The challenge is to correctly estimate scores using a massive and diverse crowd, particularly when only a ... -
A New Method for Making Design Decisions: Decision Topologies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper shows how reliability block diagrams can be used as a decision making tool. The premise behind the idea is that classical decision analysis (DA), while very powerful, does not provide much tractability in assessing ...