Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Fast Response Gripper Based on Asymmetric Bistable Dual-Triangle Tensegrity Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Robots require compliant actuators capable of reducing tremendous stress shocks while maintaining fast response and lightweight. Bistable tensegrity structures have excellent performances such as fast response and high ... -
Requirements Culture in Industry: Contrasting Perspectives From a Startup and Global Company
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study explores the concept of requirements culture through a case study performed at two different engineering companies: a medical company startup and an international power tool corporation. We introduce and explain ... -
Vision-Language Models for Design Concept Generation: An Actor–Critic Framework
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We introduce a novel actor-critic framework that utilizes vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) for design concept generation, particularly for producing a diverse array of innovative solutions to ... -
We’re All in This Together: Evaluating the Dynamics of Designers' Moods Throughout the Collaborative Design Process and Their Impact on Project Outcomes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In this article, we use sentiment analysis to understand the change in moods of individual designers and teams throughout a collaborative design project. Although there is much research on design psychology, the impact of ... -
A Review of Geometric Modeling Design and Deployment Mechanism of Flasher-Based Origami
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The flasher origami structure is a complex origami design characterized by multilayered coupling properties and deployment by rotational motion around an axis. This structure boasts an expansion ratio of up to 1:1000, ... -
A Design for Remanufacturing Framework Incorporating Identification, Evaluation, and Validation: A Case Study of Hydraulic Manifold
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In recent years, academic researchers and engineers in the industry have widely recognized the necessity of integrating remanufacturing considerations into product design iterations to advance sustainability objectives. ... -
Nonlinear Complementary Strain Energy Formulation for Planar Beam Flexures Undergoing Intermediate Deflection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The previously presented beam constraint model (BCM) successfully captures pertinent nonlinearities to predict the constraint characteristics of beam flexures. This has been followed by multiple attempts to construct a ... -
A Variable Stiffness Soft Robotic Hand Featuring Ball-Jointed Skeleton Coupled With Particles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Compared with a rigid robotic hand, the soft robotic hand has the advantages of strong safety and high adaptability, but it has problems such as insufficient grasping force, poor attitude retention ability, and poor dynamic ... -
Compliant Toggle-Linkage Mechanisms: A New Type of Displacement–Force Amplification Principle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A compliant toggle-linkage mechanism with the dual functions of displacement amplification and reduction is proposed. A series of compliant amplification mechanisms are examined by combining multi-group flexure toggle ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Zero-Stiffness Compliant Mechanisms Based on Potential Energy Principle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Zero-stiffness compliant mechanisms (ZSCM) can provide constant or zero force over a range of motion without the issues caused by the inherent stiffness of compliant mechanisms (CM). The large-deflection curved beams in ... -
Evolution Design Methodology of the Metamorphic Mechanisms Inspired by Gene Deduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This article proposes an evolutionary design method for metamorphic mechanisms inspired by gene deduction. First, the correlations between biological evolution and mechanical evolution, biological systems and mechanical ... -
Dynamic Modeling, Uncertainty Analysis, and Experimental Study of a New Cable-Driven Parallel Robot With Interval Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Based on the Chebyshev polynomial method (CPM) and interval theory, this article establishes the relationship between uncertain parameters and the dynamic response of a new cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR). Meanwhile, ... -
Design of Multi-Agent Systems Based on Bilevel Closed-Loop Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Advanced multi-agent systems are capable of executing tasks in complex and unknown domains that are unsuitable for humans. However, the design of multi-agent systems faces challenges in balancing global and local decision-making ... -
Innovative Designs of 3D Heat Sinks by Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The topology optimization (TO) method is developed and applied to 3D heat sink design optimization using the finite element method (FEM). To go from theory to practical application of optimized heat sink designs, the impact ... -
Sensitivity Analysis Based on the Fisher Information Matrix Applied to Systems With Random Design Inputs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Uncertainties in the parameters adopted during the design process make it challenging to design against the reliability of an engineering system. The identification of parameters that are more sensitive to uncertainties ... -
Density-Refine: Patent Image Retrieval by Density-Based Region Extraction and Feature Fusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Design-by-analogy (DbA) is an important methodology in mechanical design that generates innovative solutions in the target domain with inspiration from a source domain. The patent database is one of the valuable source ... -
Maximum Stress Minimization Via Data-Driven Multifidelity Topology Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The maximum stress minimization problem is among the most important topics for structural design. The conventional gradient-based topology optimization methods require transforming the original problem into a pseudo-problem ... -
Improved Augmented Lagrangian Relaxation-Assisted Analytical Target Cascading for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Analytical target cascading (ATC) is an optimization strategy designed for multilevel and multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) problems. Its core aim is to enhance the overall convergence of the system by reducing ... -
Iterative Development and Verification of 37 Design Heuristics for the Design of Medical Devices for Low-Resource Settings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Medical devices in low-resource settings are scarce and often become nonoperational after a short time, thus restricting health facilities from providing essential healthcare to patients. One major reason is that most ... -
Investigation on Meshing Stiffness, Load Distribution, and Dynamic Characteristics of a Three-Dimensional Compliance Gear-Hollow Shaft-Bearing System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The design of hollow shafts is a common method in lightweight gear transmission systems, increasing the flexibility of the shaft. However, traditional models usually make the assumption of a rigid shaft or neglect the ...