Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Design of a Novel Air Bearing Workbench for Rotary Ultrasonic Drilling of Advanced Ceramics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A novel air bearing workbench used in rotary ultrasonic drilling of advanced ceramics was designed to constantly and sensitively control the cutting force. Compared with traditional feed systems, ... -
Design in Mainland China
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)China is a civilized country that has a long history of around 5000 yr. Before the 15th century, China was considered to be in a leading position in science and technology in the world. ... -
Parameter Screening in Statistical Dynamic Computer Model Calibration Using Global Sensitivities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Computer, or simulation, models are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Two research topics in building computer models, generally treated separately, are sensitivity analysis and computer model ... -
Using the Pareto Set Pursuing Multiobjective Optimization Approach for Hybridization of a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) can improve fuel economy and emission reduction significantly compared to hybrid electric vehicles and conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. ... -
Physical Models and Design Thinking: A Study of Functionality, Novelty and Variety of Ideas
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Engineering idea generation is a crucial part of new product development, and physical modeling is a widely used tool. Despite the physical models’ popularity in the idea generation process, ... -
A Method for the Design of Ring Dampers for Gears in Aeronautical Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In order to reduce the resonant vibration of thin walled gears used for aeronautical applications, friction ring dampers may be added to the gear. In order to design the damper geometry, ... -
Research on Sliding Ratios of Conjugate Surfaces of Two Degrees of Freedom Meshing Transmission of Spherical Gear Pair
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The spherical gear is a gear-driven mechanism with two degrees of freedom (DOF), which can transfer spatial motion. The spherical gear pairs have two types of basic assembly structures including ... -
First Order Reliability Method With Truncated Random Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In many engineering applications, the probability distributions of some random variables are truncated; these truncated distributions are resulted from restricting the domain of other probability ... -
Multiresponse Metamodeling in Simulation-Based Design Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The optimal design of complex systems in engineering requires the availability of mathematical models of system’s behavior as a function of a set of design variables; such models allow the ... -
A Letter From Singapore
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Recently, I had the opportunity to visit the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), two very different institutions. SUTD is a ... -
Uncertain Technology Evolution and Decision Making in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The potential for engineering technology to evolve over time can be a critical consideration in design decisions that involve long-term commitments. Investments in manufacturing equipment, contractual ... -
An Information-Theoretic Metric of System Complexity With Application to Engineering System Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)System complexity is considered a key driver of the inability of current system design practices to at times not recognize performance, cost, and schedule risks as they emerge. We present here ... -
End-of-Life Decision Making With Uncertain Product Return Quantity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The management of end-of-life electronic waste (e-waste) attracts significant attention due to environmental concerns, legislative requirements, consumer interest in green products, and the market ... -
Design of Long-Endurance Systems With Inherent Robustness to Partial Failures During Operations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This article presents an integrated multistate method for the early-phase design of inherently robust systems; namely, those capable, as a prima facie quality, of maintaining adequate performance ... -
Dynamic Partial Least Square Path Modeling for the Front-end Product Design and Development
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The dynamic nature of today’s technology market requires new value-characteristic modeling methods; mainstream methods have limitations due to unrealistic assumptions, such as static customer ... -
Propagating Skewness and Kurtosis Through Engineering Models for Low-Cost, Meaningful, Nondeterministic Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)System models help designers predict actual system output. Generally, variation in system inputs creates variation in system outputs. Designers often propagate variance through a system model by ... -
Concurrent Design Optimization and Calibration-Based Validation Using Local Domains Sized by Bootstrapping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The design optimization process relies often on computational models for analysis or simulation. These models must be validated to quantify the expected accuracy of the obtained design solutions. ... -
A Novel Second-Order Reliability Method (SORM) Using Noncentral or Generalized Chi-Squared Distributions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper proposes a novel second-order reliability method (SORM) using noncentral or general chi-squared distribution to improve the accuracy of reliability analysis in existing SORM. Conventional ... -
Optimization Based Algorithms for Uncertainty Propagation Through Functions With Multidimensional Output Within Evidence Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Evidence theory is one of the approaches designed specifically for dealing with epistemic uncertainty. This type of uncertainty modeling is often useful at preliminary design stages where the ... -
Robust Design for Profit Maximization With Aversion to Downside Risk From Parametric Uncertainty in Consumer Choice Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In new product design, risk averse firms must consider downside risk in addition to expected profitability, since some designs are associated with greater market uncertainty than others. We ...