Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Estimation of Bending Fatigue Life of Hypoid Gears Using a Multiaxial Fatigue Criterion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this study, a crack initiation life prediction methodology for the tooth bending fatigue of hypoid gears is proposed. This methodology employs a previously developed finiteelement based hypoid gear root stress model ... -
Updating Kriging Surrogate Models Based on the Hypervolume Indicator in Multi Objective Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper presents a comparison of the criteria for updating the Kriging surrogate models in multiobjective optimization: expected improvement (EI), expected hypervolume improvement (EHVI), estimation (EST), and those in ... -
Automatically Transforming Object Oriented Graph Based Representations Into Boolean Satisfiability Problems for Computational Design Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Ever since computers have been used to support human designers, a variety of representations have been used to encapsulate engineering knowledge. Computational design synthesis (CDS) approaches utilize this knowledge to ... -
Optimal Design of Solenoid Actuators Driving Butterfly Valves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Smart valves are used in cooling applications and are responsible for regulating and supplying the coolant, which is critical for safe and effective operation of many components on naval and commercial ships. In order to ... -
Analytical and Experimental Study of Conical Telescoping Springs With Nonconstant Pitch
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Most research papers that exploit conical springs focus only on conical springs with a constant pitch. In order to increase the range of possibilities for designers, this paper proposes a study of conical springs with other ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Dr. Xiaoping Du is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Chongqing University, ... -
A Family of Remote Center of Motion Mechanisms Based on Intersecting Motion Planes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)If a part of a mechanism is restrained to rotate about a point not physically belonging to it, the mechanism is called a remote centerofmotion (RCM) mechanism. The RCM mechanisms are generally designed especially for ... -
Understanding Consumer Tradeoffs Between Form and Function Through Metaconjoint and Cognitive Neuroscience Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This work investigates how consumers make preference judgments when taking into account both product form and function. In prior work, where aesthetic preference is quantified using visual conjoint methods, aesthetic ... -
Impact of Product Design Representation on Customer Judgment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)When researchers ask customers to judge product form during the design process, they often manipulate simplified product representations, such as silhouettes and sketches, to gather information on which designs customers ... -
Reliability Based Design Optimization Modeling Future Redesign With Different Epistemic Uncertainty Treatments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Design under uncertainty needs to account for aleatory uncertainty, such as variability in material properties, and epistemic uncertainty including errors due to imperfect analysis tools. While there is a consensus that ... -
Automatic Structural Synthesis of Planar Multiple Joint Kinematic Chains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)It is of great importance in the conceptual creative design of mechanical systems to synthesize as many feasible kinematic structures of mechanisms as possible. However, the methods for the structural synthesis of multiple ... -
Formalizing and Exploring the Transferability of Inclusive Design Rules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Inclusive products intend to equally serve people with and without a disability. This paper focuses on creating guidelines that are applicable during the early stages of designing inclusive products. Actionfunction diagrams ... -
Conservative Surrogate Model Using Weighted Kriging Variance for Sampling Based RBDO
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In samplingbased reliabilitybased design optimization (RBDO) of largescale engineering applications, the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is often used for the probability of failure calculation and probabilistic sensitivity ... -
Design Optimization of Complex Hydromechanical Transmissions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Demands for higher fuel efficiency for offhighway applications motivate manufacturers to replace existing drive transmissions with more complex, highefficiency transmissions. Increased intelligence and more advanced ... -
Design of Crashworthy Structures With Controlled Energy Absorption in the Hybrid Cellular Automaton Framework
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This work presents a novel method for designing crashworthy structures with controlled energy absorption based on the use of compliant mechanisms. This method helps in introducing flexibility at desired locations within ... -
Uncertainty Considerations in the Dynamic Loading and Failure of Spur Gear Pairs1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Gears and gear systems, like any other mechanical system, are subjected to design parameter, and loading uncertainties emanating from inherent randomness, manufacturing, and assembly errors. The traditional deterministic ... -
Robust Design Optimization Under Mixed Uncertainties With Stochastic Expansions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The objective of this paper is to introduce a computationally efficient and accurate approach for robust optimization under mixed (aleatory and epistemic) uncertainties using stochastic expansions that are based on ... -
Analysis of Small Scale Hydraulic Actuation Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)We investigated smallscale hydraulic power actuation systems using a system level analysis, where smallscale refers to systems generating 10 to 100 W output power, to determine whether the high power density advantage of ... -
Improvement in Ballistae Design From Eutitonon to Palintonon: A Study on the Mechanical Advantages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This study investigated why the design of ancient throwing machines evolved from eutitonon (arms outside the mainframe) to palintonon (arms inside the mainframe) from the end of the first century B.C. to the first century ... -
Strategic Design Engineering: A Contemporary Paradigm for Engineering Design Education for the 21st Century?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)It is clear that in the United States, our current students will face a different set of challenges in their careers than faced by earlier generations. Some trends are clear—while Moore's Law holds, computing will become ...