Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Design Fixation and Its Mitigation: A Study on the Role of Expertise 

      Viswanathan, Vimal K.; Linsey, Julie S. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Engineering idea generation plays a vital role in the development of novel products. Prior studies have shown that designers fixate to the features of example solutions and replicate these features in their ideas. This ...

    • Proof of Concept of the Shape Memory Alloy ReseTtable Dual Chamber Lift Device for Pedestrian Protection With Tailorable Performance 

      Otten, James; Luntz, Jonathan; Brei, Diann; Strom, Kenneth A.; Browne, Alan L.; Johnson, Nancy L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      As automobile use expands in populationdense cities across the world, there is a growing need for new approaches to mitigate the consequences to pedestrians of pedestrian/automotive collisions. This is especially challenging ...

    • Pinion Assembly Strategies for Planetary Gear Sets 

      Feng, Pei; Qi, Yuxuan; Qiu, Qingying (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Previous works illustrate that the orientation of pinion runout errors has strong effect on the load sharing behavior of floating planetary gear sets. To minimize the inequality of load sharing, an inphase rule for assembling ...

    • On Designs by Ancient Engineers 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      With regard to the above, it may be interesting to consider the “Delian Problem,â€‌ a legend (Theon of Smyrna) about a disastrous pestilence on the Isle of Delos. The oracle of the god Apollo declared that the god wanted ...

    • Effect of the Ratio Spread of CVU in Automotive Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems 

      Bottiglione, F.; Mantriota, G. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) are being considered as promising shortrange solution to improve the fuel economy of road vehicles. The key element of a mechanical hybrid is a Continuously Variable Unit (CVU), ...

    • The 200th Issue of JMD 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The Journal started in 1978 by the Design Engineering Division and up until 2003 was published quarterly. As the number of submissions and backlogs increased JMD moved to bimonthly publication during 2004–2006 and beginning ...

    • Contact Kinematics in the Roller Screw Mechanism 

      Jones, Matthew H.; Velinsky, Steven A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper investigates the nature of the contact between the load transferring surfaces in the roller screw mechanism, i.e., between the screw and roller threads and between the nut and roller threads. The analysis is ...

    • Objective Oriented Sequential Sampling for Simulation Based Robust Design Considering Multiple Sources of Uncertainty 

      Arendt, Paul D.; Apley, Daniel W.; Chen, Wei (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Sequential sampling strategies have been developed for managing complexity when using computationally expensive computer simulations in engineering design. However, much of the literature has focused on objectiveoriented ...

    • Geometric Design of Micro Reducer With Multi Output Shafts Distributed in Regular Polygon Form 

      Chen, Yang; Fu, Xiao; Ding, Jiang; Liang, Shun (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Based on the theory of space curve meshing, a space curve meshing wheel (SCMW) transmission mechanism has been invented by present authors in recent years. To extend applications of the SCMW, design methods for a novel ...

    • Computationally Efficient Imprecise Uncertainty Propagation 

      Ghosh, Dipanjan D.; Olewnik, Andrew (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Modeling uncertainty through probabilistic representation in engineering design is common and important to decision making that considers risk. However, representations of uncertainty often ignore elements of “imprecisionâ€‌ ...

    • Automated Mapping of Physical Effects to Functions Using Abstraction Ports Based on Bond Graphs 

      Helms, Bergen; Schultheiss, Hansjoerg; Shea, Kristina (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Innovation processes are highly susceptible to cyclic influences, such as evolving knowledge due to new technologies. In order to better meet these challenges, improved computational design support is required. Paperbased ...

    • Tolerance Analysis and Allocation for Design of a Self Aligning Coupling Assembly Using Tolerance Maps 

      Singh, Gagandeep; Ameta, Gaurav; Davidson, Joseph K.; Shah, Jami J. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      A selfaligning coupling is used as a vehicle to show that the ToleranceMap (TMap) mathematical model for geometric tolerances can distinguish between related and unrelated actual mating envelopes as described in the ASME/ISO ...

    • Stability Analysis and Convergence Control of Iterative Algorithms for Reliability Analysis and Design Optimization 

      Yang, Dixiong; Xiao, Hui (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Iterative algorithms are widely applied in reliability analysis and design optimization. Nevertheless, phenomena of failed convergence, such as periodic oscillation, bifurcation, and chaos, are oftentimes observed in ...

    • Discovering Structure in Design Databases Through Functional and Surface Based Mapping 

      Fu, Katherine; Cagan, Jonathan; Kotovsky, Kenneth; Wood, Kristin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This work presents a methodology for discovering structure in design repository databases, toward the ultimate goal of stimulating designers through designbyanalogy. Using a Bayesian model combined with latent semantic ...

    • Torque Measurement With Compliant Mechanisms 

      Ma, Raymond; Slocum, Jr. ,Alexander H.; Sung, Edward; Bean, Jonathan F.; Culpepper, Martin L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This work focuses on the design, development, and testing of an inexpensive, lowprofile, cartwheel flexure mechanism for torque measurement. It has been designed primarily for use in a rehabilitation and diagnostics ...

    • Determination of the Most Dangerous Meshing Point for Modified Hourglass Worm Drives 

      Zhao, Yaping; Zhang, Yimin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      A type of modifiedhourglass worm gear drive, frequently called typeII worm gearing for short, has various favorable meshing features. Its sole shortcoming is the undercutting of the worm wheel. By adopting a slight ...

    • Tooth Contact Analysis and Manufacture on Multitasking Machine of Large Sized Straight Bevel Gears With Equi Depth Teeth 

      Tsuji, Isamu; Kawasaki, Kazumasa; Gunbara, Hiroshi; Houjoh, Haruo; Matsumura, Shigeki (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Straight bevel gears are widely used in the plant of largesized power generation when the gears have large size. The purpose of this study is to manufacture the largesized straight bevel gears with equidepth teeth on a ...

    • Concurrent Design of Product Families and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems 

      Bryan, April; Wang, Hui; Abell, Jeffrey (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      To cope with the challenges of market competition and the greater purchasing power of consumers, manufacturers have increased the variety of products they offer. Product families and reconfigurable manufacturing systems ...

    • Probability Based Prediction of Degrading Dynamic Systems 

      Savage, Gordon J.; Seecharan, Turuna S.; Kap Son, Young (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper presents a methodology to provide the cumulative failure distribution (CDF) for degrading, uncertain, and dynamic systems. The uniqueness and novelty of the methodology is that long service time over which ...

    • Topology Optimization of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Skin Using Hybrid Cellular Automata 

      Lee, Soobum; Tovar, Andrأ©s (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      An earlier study introduced the concept of piezoelectric energyharvesting skin (EHS) to harvest energy by attaching thin piezoelectric patches onto a vibrating skin. This paper presents a methodology for the optimum design ...