Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A New Design Approach for Rapid Evaluation of Structural Modifications Using Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Design optimization of structural systems is often iterative, time consuming and is limited by the knowledge of the designer. For that reason, a rapid design optimization scheme is desirable to avoid such problems. This ... -
Opportunities in Engineering Design Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This is an excellent time for engineering design research. Not only is the National Science Foundation continuing its strong support for fundamental research in design but also the Department of Defense is pulling together ... -
On Engineering and Systems Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The bill for creating the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) was signed into law by President Truman on May 10, 1950. Accordingly, the NSF is “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, ... -
Reliability Based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Using Probabilistic Gradient Based Transformation Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Recently, solving the complex design optimization problems with design uncertainties has become an important but very challenging task in the communities of reliabilitybased design optimization (RBDO) and multidisciplinary ... -
A Nongraphical Method to Determine the Optimum Disassembly Plan in Remanufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Optimizing a disassembly process involves maximizing the number of disassembled valuable parts (cores) and minimizing the number of disassembly operations. Usually, some disassembly operations are in common among two or ... -
A Sequential Algorithm for Reliability-Based Robust Design Optimization Under Epistemic Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In practical applications, there may exist a disparity between real values and optimal results due to uncertainties. This kind of disparity may cause violations of some probabilistic constraints ... -
An Analytical Model for a Piezoelectric Axially Driven Membrane Microcompressor for Optimum Scaled Down Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A new and comprehensive analytical model for membrane microcompressors driven axially by a single lead zirconium titanate (PZT) stack actuator that incorporates assembly variation errors is ... -
Systematic Synthesis of Large Displacement Contact-Aided Monolithic Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A single-piece contact-aided compliant mechanism (CCM) deforms to use one or many contact interactions to deliver the prescribed intricate input–output functionality. We present an automated synthesis ... -
Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Nonlinear Aeroelasticity of Forward-Swept, Compliant Wings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)At the beginning of aviation history, aeroelastic static instabilities represented a problem in operating monoplane aircraft. After being discovered, they were systematically avoided, since they ... -
Metrics for Evaluation and Design of Large-Displacement Linear-Motion Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This work introduces metrics for large-displacement linear-motion compliant mechanisms (LLCMs) that evaluate the performance tradeoff between displacement and off-axis stiffness. These metrics are ... -
Efficient Propagation of Error Through System Models for Functions Common in Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)System modeling can help designers make and verify design decisions early in the design process if the model’s accuracy can be determined. The formula typically used to analytically propagate ... -
Toward Time-Dependent Robustness Metrics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Quality characteristics are often treated as constants in robust design, while many of them actually vary over time. It is desirable to define new robustness metrics for time-dependent quality ... -
Surrogate Modeling of Multistage Assembly Processes Using Integrated Emulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)For the design and optimization of multistage assembly processes, a computationally cheap mathematical model that links design parameters with the final product dimensional quality is highly ... -
The Design Universe: A Journal’s Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This year, the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design will be thirty five years old. So this is a good time for celebration and also for reflection. The design universe has grown steadily over ... -
Reconstruction Synthesis of the Lost Subsystem for the Planetary Motions of Antikythera Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The mechanism for the planetary motions contained in the lost subsystem of Antikythera mechanism is a strict challenge of the reconstruction design. This work presents a systematic procedure of ... -
A Co-Evolutionary Approach for Design Optimization via Ensembles of Surrogates With Application to Vehicle Crashworthiness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In many engineering application, where accurate models require lengthy numerical computations, it is a common design practice to perform design of experiments (DOE) and construct surrogate models ... -
A Numerical Contour Method for Simulating Spiral Groove Bottom Profiles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The envelope method can be used to model the spiral groove surface profile in single screw compressors produced by cylindrical milling using the contact lines of the cutter surface and the ... -
Development of the Reconfigurable Data Acquisition Vehicle for Bio-Energy Crop Sensing and Management
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this article, the development of the Reconfigurable Data Acquisition Vehicle (R-DAV) that has a high performance as a wheeled mobile robot is presented. The R-DAV is designed to monitor and ... -
Kinematic Analysis of Spatial Geared Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, a general method for kinematic analysis of complex gear mechanisms, including bevel gear trains and noncollinear input and output axes, is presented. This new approach is based ... -
Computational Synthesis of Product Architectures Based on Object-Oriented Graph Grammars
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Computational design synthesis aims to iteratively and automatically generate solution spaces of standard and novel design alternatives to support the innovation process. New approaches are required ...