Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Increasing the Power Density for Axial Piston Swash Plate Type Hydrostatic Machines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Power density is an assumed attribute of an axialpiston swashplate type hydrostatic machine. As such, very little research has been conducted to examine the nature and limit of this machine's power density and the literature ... -
Characteristic Analysis of Wind Turbine Gearbox Considering Non Torque Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In the design of wind turbine gearboxes, the most important objective is to improve the durability to guarantee a service life of more than 20 years. This work investigates how external loads caused by wind fluctuation ... -
A Decomposition Method for Exploiting Parallel Computing Including the Determination of an Optimal Number of Subsystems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Many practical design problems are multidisciplinary and typically involve the transfer of complex information between analysis modules. In solving such problems, the method for performing multidisciplinary analyses greatly ... -
Active Contours With Stochastic Fronts and Mechanical Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Active contours with stochastic fronts (ACSF) is developed and investigated in this article to address the dependency of the existing algorithms of topology optimization on the initial guesses. The promising results of ... -
Experimental and Numerical Study of a Loaded Cylindrical PA66 Gear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Polymer gears replace metal ones in many motion and light power transmission applications. This paper presents a numerical method to predict the mechanical behavior of plastic cylindrical gears and its experimental validation. ... -
Assessing Position Error Due to Clearances and Deformations of Links in Parallel Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Two of the main sources of position error in parallel manipulators are clearances at joints and elastic deformations of the links. The former are usually necessary in order to produce a smooth movement between the pin and ... -
An Approach to Determine Important Attributes for Engineering Change Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Enterprises plan detailed evaluation of only those engineering change (EC) effects that might have a significant impact. Using past EC knowledge can prove effective in determining whether a proposed EC effect has significant ... -
Equitable Multi Objective Optimization Applied to the Design of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This work considers the impact of thermal behavior in battery design. The cell performance worsens when the operating temperature falls outside of the ideal range, and evenness of cell temperatures is sought to prevent ... -
Maximizing Profits From End of Life and Initial Sales With Heterogeneous Consumer Demand
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Growing concerns from customers and the government about product disposal highlight the necessity of improving product takeback systems to retain the embedded values in disposed products. Progress has been made toward ... -
Toward System Architecture Generation and Performances Assessment Under Uncertainty Using Bayesian Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Architecture generation and evaluation are critical points in complex system design. Uncertainties concerning component characteristics and their impact onto overall system performance are often not taken into account in ... -
Evolution of JMD During the Early Years: 1978–1989
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)As we approach the 200th issue of the Journal in Jun. 2013, it would be timely to provide our readers with an overview of the evolution of the Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). In this editorial, I focus on the early ... -
Design, Analysis, and Control of a Novel Safe Cell Micromanipulation System With IPMC Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper presents the design, analysis, and control of a novel micromanipulation system to facilitate the safe handling/probing of biological cells. The robotic manipulator has a modular design, where each module provides ... -
Approaches for Identifying Consumer Preferences for the Design of Technology Products: A Case Study of Residential Solar Panels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper investigates ways to obtain consumer preferences for technology products to help designers identify the key attributes that contribute to a product's market success. A case study of residential photovoltaic ... -
Encouraging Resource Conscious Behavior Through Product Design: The Principle of Discretization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Leaduser methods were applied to develop product design principles that encourage resourceconscious behavior in individuals. Old Order Mennonites (OOMs) were chosen as lead users because of their lowresource consumption ... -
Designing Microstructural Architectures With Thermally Actuated Properties Using Freedom, Actuation, and Constraint Topologies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this paper, we demonstrate how the principles of the freedom, actuation, and constraint topologies (FACT) approach may be applied to the synthesis, analysis, and optimization of microstructural architectures that possess ... -
A Comparative Study of Evidence Theories in the Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Engineering Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The application of different types of evidence theories in the modeling, analysis and design of engineering systems is explored. In most studies dealing with evidence theory, the Dempster–Shafer theory (DST) has been ... -
Design of Complex Biologically Based Nanoscale Systems Using Multi Agent Simulations and Structure–Behavior–Function Representations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The process of designing integrated biological systems across scales is difficult, with challenges arising from the modeling, understanding, and search of complex system design spaces. This paper explores these challenges ... -
The Effect of Driving Method and Crank Arrangements on the Performance of a Reconstructed Ancient Chinese Wooden Horse Carriage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of driving method and crank arrangements on the performance of a reconstructed ancient Chinese wooden horse carriage. The results demonstrate better transmission ... -
Kinematic Analysis of a Three Degree of Freedom Compliant Platform
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper addresses the kinematic analysis of a threedegree of freedom (DOF) compliant platform able to move in three dimensional space. The device is formed by the actuators, a central moving platform, and compliant ... -
Impacts of Synthesis Reasoning on Ideation Effectiveness in Conceptual Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Synthesis plays a critical role in determining the ideation effectiveness in conceptual design. When synthesis is formulated as a reasoning activity, there are several fundamental reasoning principles in formal logic that ...