Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Product Family Design Through Ontology Based Faceted Component Analysis, Selection, and Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Product family design (PFD) is a widely adopted strategy for product realization, especially when design requirements are diversified and multifaceted. Due to everchanging customer needs and the increasingly complex and ... -
A Parallel Reanalysis Method Based on Approximate Inverse Matrix for Complex Engineering Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The combined approximations (CA) method is an effective reanalysis approach providing high quality results. The CA method is suitable for a wide range of structural optimization problems including linear reanalysis, nonlinear ... -
Maximizing Design Confidence in Sequential Simulation Based Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Computational simulation models support a rapid design process. Given model approximation and operating conditions uncertainty, designers must have confidence that the designs obtained using simulations will perform as ... -
An Evolutionary Algorithm Based Approach to Design Optimization Using Evidence Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)For problems involving uncertainties in design variables and parameters, a biobjective evolutionary algorithm (EA) based approach to design optimization using evidence theory is proposed and implemented in this paper. In ... -
Evaluation of the Influence of a Planned Interference Fit on the Expected Fatigue Life of a Conjugate Cam Mechanism A Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Due to dynamic effects, clearances, manufacturing and assembly errors in formclosed cam mechanisms, the follower jump can also occur. For conjugate cam mechanisms a technique to avoid the follower jump without the use of ... -
Derivation of Optimum Profile Modifications in Narrow Faced Spur and Helical Gears Using a Perturbation Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A perturbation method is presented which makes it possible to obtain approximate closedform expressions for profile relief that minimize the fluctuations of quasistatic transmission errors under load. A number of results ... -
Optimal Magnetorheological Damper Configuration Using the Taguchi Experimental Design Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Magnetorheological (MR) dampers have attracted the interest of suspension designers and researchers because of their variable damping feature, mechanical simplicity, robustness, low power consumption and fast response. ... -
25 Years of Design Theory and Methodology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In the mid 1980s, I was one of an eclectic group of academics who began looking at design as a formal area of research. Some approached it as an effort to understand and codify the process of design, others focused on the ... -
Assembling Creative Teams in New Product Development Using Creative Team Familiarity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Creativity is strongly influenced by the way individuals are organized. One of the most difficult and important challenges when managing innovation is to identify the individuals within an organization who must work closely ... -
Design of Parallel Mechanisms for Flexible Manufacturing With Reconfigurable Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Reconfigurable robotic systems can enhance productivity and save costs in the ever growing flexible manufacturing regime. In this work, the idea to synthesize robotic mechanisms with dynamic properties that are reconfigurable ... -
Limitations of Pareto Front in Design Under Uncertainty and Their Reconciliation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Engineering design reconciles design constraints with decision maker (DM) preferences. The task of eliciting and encoding decision maker preferences is, however, extremely difficult. A Pareto front representing the locus ... -
Optimization of Constraint Location, Orientation, and Quantity in Mechanical Assembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A mechanical assembly aims to remove 6 degreeoffreedom (DOF) motion between two or more parts using features such as fasteners, integral attachments, and mating surfaces, all of which act as constraints. The locations, ... -
Digital Human Forward Kinematic and Dynamic Reliabilities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Probabilistic methods have been applied to many problems in various fields of study. There are many distinct applications of probabilistic design in the biomechanics field, in particular. Traditionally, deterministic methods ... -
Applied Tests of Design Skills—Part II: Visual Thinking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A number of cognitive skills relevant to conceptual design have been previously identified: divergent thinking, visual thinking, spatial reasoning, qualitative reasoning, and problem formulation. A battery of standardized ... -
Effect of Mesh Stiffness on the Dynamic Response of Face Gear Transmission System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The effect of mesh stiffness on the dynamic response of face gear transmission system combining with backlash nonlinearity is studied. First, a nonlinear timevarying (NLTV) and a nonlinear timeinvariant (NLTI) dynamic ... -
Efficiency of High Sensitivity Gear Trains, Such as Cycloid Drives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Compact, high torque ratio, high efficiency transmissions are required in many applications, such as robotics. However, compact size and high torque ratios often come at the expense of surprisingly low efficiency. Here we ... -
Shaping Patient Specific Surgical Guides for Arthroplasty to Obtain High Docking Robustness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Patient specific surgical guides (PSSGs) are used in joint replacement surgery to simplify the surgical process and to increase the accuracy in alignment of implant components with respect to the bone. Each PSSG is fabricated ... -
A Sampling Approach to Extreme Value Distribution for Time Dependent Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Maintaining high accuracy and efficiency is a challenging issue in timedependent reliability analysis. In this work, an accurate and efficient method is proposed for limitstate functions with the following features: The ... -
Numerical Strategies to Reduce the Effect of Ill Conditioned Correlation Matrices and Underflow Errors in Kriging
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Kriging is used extensively as a metamodel in multidisciplinary design optimization. The correlation matrix used in Kriging metamodeling frequently becomes illconditioned. Therefore different numerical methods used to solve ... -
Biologically Inspired Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)We recently organized two workshops on “Charting a Course for ComputerAided BioInspired Design†sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF). These workshops brought together a few dozen leading ...