Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Sequential Quadratic Programming for Robust Optimization With Interval Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Uncertainty plays a critical role in engineering design as even a small amount of uncertainty could make an optimal design solution infeasible. The goal of robust optimization is to find a ... -
Improving Identifiability in Model Calibration Using Multiple Responses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In physics-based engineering modeling, the two primary sources of model uncertainty, which account for the differences between computer models and physical experiments, are parameter uncertainty ... -
Special Issue: Design Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)I am delighted to present to our JMD community this special issue on design under uncertainty. JMD has been a leading venue for publishing research in this area over many years. Following ... -
Parallel Manipulators With a Rotation-Symmetric Arm System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Parallel manipulators with a rotation-symmetric arm system possess all the typical advantages of parallel robots, such as high acceleration and high-accuracy positioning. Contrary to the majority ... -
Quantification of Model Uncertainty: Calibration, Model Discrepancy, and Identifiability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)To use predictive models in engineering design of physical systems, one should first quantify the model uncertainty via model updating techniques employing both simulation and experimental data. ... -
A Two-Pressure Humidity Generator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A device for precisely humidifying a process gas is presented, with particular application to document preservation. The machine is designed to minimize the risk of damage from overpressure by ... -
Design Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Uncertainty is ubiquitous in engineering design. The past decade has seen a significant growth of research developments in design under uncertainty, and a wide range of applications from designing ... -
A Market-Based Design Strategy for a Universal Product Family
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Companies that generate a variety of products and services are creating, and increasing research on, mass-customized products in order to satisfy customers’ specific needs. Currently, the majority ... -
Convex Estimators for Optimization of Kriging Model Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents a framework for identification of the global optimum of Kriging models that have been tuned to approximate the response of some generic objective function and constraints. ... -
Concurrent Optimization of Computationally Learned Stylistic Form and Functional Goals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Great design often results from intelligently balancing tradeoffs and leveraging of synergies between multiple product goals. While the engineering design community has numerous tools for managing ... -
Assessment of the Relationships Among Design Methods, Design Activities, and Creativity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents an experimental study that was conducted to compare the results obtained from using different design methods (brainstorming (BR), functional analysis (FA), and SCAMPER) in ... -
Reduction of Torque-Induced Bending Vibrations in Ball Screw-Driven Machines via Optimal Design of the Nut
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)As a result of the push for sustainable machine designs, efforts are constantly being made to reduce the mass/inertia of moving machine components so as to minimize material usage and energy ... -
Kinematic Analysis of Epicyclic Bevel Gear Trains With Matroid Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The paper presents a novel technique for the kinematic analysis of bevel gear trains using the incidence matrices of an edge-oriented graph of the mechanism. The kinematic equations are then ... -
A View on Design: The German Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Engineering design and product development research, and teaching based on research insights, has a very long history in German-speaking countries. Like in most other countries (see, for instance, ... -
Making Sense of Elegant Complexity in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The complexity of many large-scale systems is outpacing our ability to effectively design, analyze, and manage such systems. Projects such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Boeing Dreamliner, ... -
A Nested Extreme Response Surface Approach for Time-Dependent Reliability-Based Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A primary concern in practical engineering design is ensuring high system reliability throughout a product's lifecycle, which is subject to time-variant operating conditions and component ... -
Improving the Volumetric Efficiency of the Axial Piston Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The volumetric efficiency is one of the most important aspects of system performance in the design of axial piston pumps. From the standpoint of engineering practices, the geometric complexities ... -
Study of a Fully Compliant U-Joint Designed for Minirobotics Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The paper proposes the study of the kinetostatic behavior of a flexible universal joint for minirobotic applications. A closed-form formulation of joint’s compliance is obtained for linear elastic ... -
Design for Assembly Guidelines for High-Performance Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Compliant mechanisms with ultrahigh precision motion are being increasingly used for several applications including micromeasurement, micro/nanomanipulation, microfabrication, and so on. Flexure linkages ... -
Two-Step Design of Multicontact-Aided Cellular Compliant Mechanisms for Stress Relief
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A methodology for topology optimization to the design of compliant cellular mechanisms with and without internal contact is presented. A two-step procedure is pursued. First, a baseline noncontact ...