Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Spectral Characterization of Hierarchical Modularity in Product Architectures1 

      Sarkar, Somwrita; Dong, Andy; Henderson, James A.; Robinson, P. A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Despite the importance of the architectural modularity of products and systems, existing modularity metrics or algorithms do not account for overlapping and hierarchically embedded modules. This paper presents a graph ...

    • High Dimensional Model Representation With Principal Component Analysis 

      Hajikolaei, Kambiz Haji; Gary Wang, G. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      In engineering design, spending excessive amount of time on physical experiments or expensive simulations makes the design costly and lengthy. This issue exacerbates when the design problem has a large number of inputs, ...

    • Product Resynthesis: Knowledge Discovery of the Value of End of Life Assemblies and Subassemblies 

      Woo Kang, Sung; Sane, Chinmay; Vasudevan, Nitish; Tucker, Conrad S. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      The trends of increasing waste and comparatively low growth of waste treatment methodologies have created the need for better utilization of the products we deem unfit for use. The options available for utilizing endoflife ...

    • Priming Designers to Communicate Sustainability 

      She, Jinjuan; MacDonald, Erin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)
      Priming is a psychological experimental technique that uses an artifact, exposure, or experience to stimulate cognitive accessibility of specific mental content. Design techniques that use priming stimuli have thus far ...

    • PCB Origami: A Material Based Design Approach to Computer Aided Foldable Electronic Devices 

      Sterman, Yoav; Demaine, Erik D.; Oxman, Neri (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Origami is traditionally implemented in paper, which is a passive material. This research explores the use of material with embedded electronics such as printed circuit boards (PCB) as the medium for origami folding to ...

    • Geometric Analysis of a Foldable Barrel Vault With Origami 

      Cai, Jianguo; Xu, Yixiang; Feng, Jian (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with modified Miuraori patterns, which displays a curvature during the motion. The principal of spherical trigonometry was used to obtain the relationship of ...

    • Miura Base Rigid Origami: Parameterizations of First Level Derivative and Piecewise Geometries 

      Gattas, Joseph M.; Wu, Weina; You, Zhong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Miura and Miuraderivative rigid origami patterns are increasingly used for engineering and architectural applications. However, geometric modelling approaches used in existing studies are generally haphazard, with pattern ...

    • Reconstructing David Huffman's Origami Tessellations1 

      Davis, Eli; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Ramseyer, Jennifer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      David A. Huffman (1925–1999) is best known in computer science for his work in information theory, particularly Huffman codes, and best known in origami as a pioneer of curvedcrease folding. But during his early paper ...

    • Automatic Generation of a Pattern of Geometric Features for Industrial Design 

      Andrade, Diego F.; Shimada, Kenji (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper presents a new computational method for the automatic generation of geometric feature patterns for industrial design. Such patterns include speaker holes, showerhead holes, and bumpy textures on a grip, and they ...

    • Design and Optimization of a Shape Memory Alloy Based Self Folding Sheet 

      Peraza; Hartl, Darren; Galvan, Edgar; Malak, Richard (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Origami engineering—the practice of creating useful threedimensional structures through folding and foldlike operations on twodimensional buildingblocks—has the potential to impact several areas of design and manufacturing. ...

    • Designing Freeform Origami Tessellations by Generalizing Resch's Patterns 

      Tachi, Tomohiro (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In this research, we study a method to produce families of origami tessellations from given polyhedral surfaces. The resulting tessellated surfaces generalize the patterns proposed by Ron Resch and allow the construction ...

    • A Classification of Action Origami as Systems of Spherical Mechanisms 

      Bowen, Landen A.; Grames, Clayton L.; Magleby, Spencer P.; Howell, Larry L.; Lang, Robert J. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Action origami is a field of origami dealing with models that are folded so that in their final, deployed state they exhibit motion. Hundreds of action origami models exist, many of which use complicated kinematics to ...

    • Kinetogami: A Reconfigurable, Combinatorial, and Printable Sheet Folding 

      Gao, Wei; Ramani, Karthik; Cipra, Raymond J.; Siegmund, Thomas (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      As an ancient paper craft originating from Japan, origami has been naturally embedded and contextualized in a variety of applications in the fields of mathematics, engineering, food packaging, and biological design. The ...

    • Accommodating Thickness in Origami Based Deployable Arrays1 

      Zirbel, Shannon A.; Lang, Robert J.; Thomson, Mark W.; Sigel, Deborah A.; Walkemeyer, Phillip E.; Trease, Brian P.; Magleby, Spencer P.; Howell, Larry L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The purpose of this work is to develop approaches to accommodate thickness in origamibased deployable arrays with a high ratio of deployedtostowed diameter. The origami flasher model serves as a basis for demonstrating the ...

    • Virtual Chain Approach for Mobility Analysis of Multiloop Deployable Mechanisms 

      Huang, Hailin; Deng, Zongquan; Qi, Xiaozhi; Li, Bing (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In this paper, we present a virtual chain approach for the mobility analysis of multiloop deployable mechanisms. First, the relative motion of the links of singleloop units in multiloop mechanisms are analyzed using the ...

    • Edge Compositions of 3D Surfaces 

      Sung, Cynthia; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Rus, Daniela (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Origamibased design methods enable complex devices to be fabricated quickly in plane and then folded into their final 3D shapes. So far, these folded structures have been designed manually. This paper presents a geometric ...

    • Origami Design by Topology Optimization 

      Fuchi, Kazuko; Diaz, Alejandro R. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      An origami design method based on topology optimization is introduced. The design of a folding pattern is cast as a problem of assigning presence and type of fold to lines in a “ground structure,â€‌ using folding angles ...

    • Kinematic Analysis and Stiffness Validation of Origami Cartons 

      Qiu, C.; Aminzadeh, Vahid; Dai, Jian S. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Origamitype cartons have been widely used in packaging industry because of their versatility, but there is a lack of systematic approach to study their folding behavior, which is a key issue in designing packaging machines ...

    • Correction to Design Equation for Spring Diametral Growth Upon Compression 

      Bockwoldt, T. S.; Munsick, G. A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In the textbook by Wahl (1963, Mechanical Springs, 2nd ed., McGrawHill, New York, Chap. 20), he derived an equation predicting the diametral growth of a helical spring as the spring is compressed from free to solid height, ...

    • Novel Pressure Resistant Oil Immersed Proportional Actuator for Electrohydraulic Proportional Control Valve 

      Ding, Chuan; Ding, Fan; Zhou, Xing; Liu, Shuo; Yang, Canjun (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper presents a novel pressureresistant oilimmersed proportional actuator with a magnetic grid magneticisolated ring (MGMR) on its singlepiece sleeve. A twodimensional finite element method is used to establish the ...