Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Announcing JMD’s Annual Best Paper Award Guidelines 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      The committee submitted its report in November 2013. I would like to take this opportunity and thank the committee members for their dedicated service. Their report is the basis for the guidelines presented in this Editorial. ...

    • Origami Inspired Integrated Planar Spherical Overconstrained Mechanisms 

      Wei, Guowu; Dai, Jian S. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      This paper presents two integrated planarspherical overconstrained mechanisms that are inspired and evolved from origami cartons with a crashlock base. Investigating the crashlock base of the origami cartons, the first ...

    • The Impact of Team Based Product Dissection on Design Novelty 

      Toh, Christine A.; Miller, Scarlett R.; Okudan Kremer, Gأ¼l E. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Although design novelty is a critical area of research in engineering design, most research in this space has focused on understanding and developing formal idea generation methods instead of focusing on the impact of ...

    • Dynamic Model of Variable Speed Process for Herringbone Gears Including Friction Calculated by Variable Friction Coefficient 

      Liu, Changzhao; Qin, Datong; Liao, Yinghua (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      A dynamic model that includes friction and tooth profile error excitation for herringbone gears is proposed for the dynamic analysis of variable speed processes. In this model, the position of the contact line and relative ...

    • Identifying Key Parameters for Design Improvement in High Dimensional Systems With Uncertainty 

      Fender, Johannes; Graff, L.; Harbrecht, H.; Zimmermann, Markus (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Key parameters may be used to turn a bad design into a good design with comparatively little effort. The proposed method identifies key parameters in highdimensional nonlinear systems that are subject to uncertainty. A ...

    • Leveraging Virtual Reality Experiences With Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Visualization of Disassembly Sequence Planning Under Uncertainty 

      Behdad, Sara; Berg, Leif P.; Thurston, Deborah; Vance, Judy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Disassembly sequence planning at the early conceptual stage of design leads to enormous benefits including simplification of products, lower assembly and disassembly costs, and design modifications which result in increased ...

    • Value Based Global Optimization 

      Moore, Roxanne A.; Romero, David A.; Paredis, Christiaan J. J. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      In this paper, a valuebased global optimization (VGO) algorithm is introduced. The algorithm uses kriginglike surrogate models and a sequential sampling strategy based on value of information (VoI) to optimize an objective ...

    • User Centered Design Customization of Rugby Wheelchairs Based on the Taguchi Method 

      Usma; Fuss, Franz K.; Subic, Aleksandar (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Competitive wheelchair sport performance is dependent on three factors: the athlete, the wheelchair, and the interaction between the athlete and the wheelchair (GooseyTolfrey, 2010, “Supporting the Paralympic Athlete: ...

    • A Function Based Approach for Product Integration 

      Kalyanasundaram, Vishwa; Lewis, Kemper (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Reconfigurable and multifunctional products are breeds of products that cater to the increased diversification of customer needs. Unlike singlestate static products which can perform only one primary function, these products ...

    • Some Important Issues on First Order Reliability Analysis With Nonprobabilistic Convex Models 

      Jiang, C.; Lu, G. Y.; Han, X.; Bi, R. G. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Compared with the probability model, the convex model approach only requires the bound information on the uncertainty, and can make it possible to conduct the reliability analysis for many complex engineering problems with ...

    • Kinematic Synthesis for Infinitesimally and Multiply Separated Positions Using Geometric Constraint Programming 

      Schmiedeler, James P.; Clark, Barrett C.; Kinzel, Edward C.; Pennock, Gordon R. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Geometric constraint programming (GCP) is an approach to synthesizing planar mechanisms in the sketching mode of commercial parametric computeraided design software by imposing geometric constraints using the software's ...

    • An Electromechanical Integrated Harmonic Piezodrive System 

      Xu, Lizhong; Li, Huaiyong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      An electromechanical integrated harmonic piezodrive system is proposed. The key of the proposed piezodrive system is the integration of the piezodrive principle with the harmonic drive and the movable tooth drive principles, ...

    • Generalized Equations for Estimating Stress Concentration Factors of Various Notch Flexure Hinges 

      Chen, Guimin; Wang, Jialu; Liu, Xiaoyuan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      The flexure hinges are the most vulnerable parts in a flexurebased mechanism due to their smaller dimensions and stress concentration characteristics, therefore evaluating the maximum stresses generated in them is crucial ...

    • Level Set Based Topology Optimization of Hinge Free Compliant Mechanisms Using a Two Step Elastic Modeling Method 

      Zhu, Benliang; Zhang, Xianmin; Fatikow, Sergej (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      This paper presents a twostep elastic modeling (TsEM) method for the topology optimization of compliant mechanisms aimed at eliminating de facto hinges. Based on the TsEM method, an alternative formulation is developed and ...

    • Market System Design Optimization With Consider Then Choose Models 

      Ross Morrow, W.; Long, Minhua; MacDonald, Erin F. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Design optimization in market system research commonly relies on Discrete choice analysis (DCA) to forecast sales and revenues for different product variants. Conventional DCA, which represents consumer choice as a ...

    • Evaluating the End of Maintenance Dates for Electronic Assemblies Composed of Obsolete Parts 

      Konoza, Anthony; Sandborn, Peter (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Longterm support of legacy electronic systems is challenging due to mismatches between the system support life and the procurement lives of the systems’ constituent components. Legacy electronic systems that are used in ...

    • Characterizing Uncertainty Attributable to Surrogate Models 

      Zhang, Jie; Chowdhury, Souma; Mehmani, Ali; Messac, Achille (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      This paper investigates the characterization of the uncertainty in the prediction of surrogate models. In the practice of engineering, where predictive models are pervasively used, the knowledge of the level of modeling ...

    • Searching Feasible Design Space by Solving Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problems 

      Hu, Jie; Aminzadeh, Masoumeh; Wang, Yan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      In complex systems design, multidisciplinary constraints are imposed by stakeholders. Engineers need to search feasible design space for a given problem before searching for the optimum design solution. Searching feasible ...

    • An Adaptive Response Surface Method Using Bayesian Metric and Model Bias Correction Function 

      Shi, Lei; Yang, Ren; Zhu, Ping (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      The Bayesian metric was used to select the best available response surface in the literature. One of the major drawbacks of this method is the lack of a rigorous method to quantify data uncertainty, which is required as ...

    • Extensible Link Kinematic Model for Characterizing and Optimizing Compliant Mechanism Motion 

      Beroz, Justin; Awtar, Shorya; John Hart, A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      We present an analytical model for characterizing the motion trajectory of an arbitrary planar compliant mechanism. Model development consists of identifying particular material points and their connecting vectorial lengths ...