Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • A View of Design (and JMD): The French Perspective 

      Bernard Yannou; Jean-François Petiot (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      A quick glance on history of science and engineering shows that the creation and invention of technical products has held a great appeal in France. A tradition of inventiveness, engineering, ...

    • A Study on Possible Motors for Siege Towers 

      Cesare Rossi; Stefano Pagano (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper studies the motion of the ancient siege tower. Many considerations and different pieces from the classics strongly suggest that those war machines were powered by internal motors; ...

    • Handbook on Stiffness and Damping in Mechanical Design 

      Eugene I. Rivin; LUCJAN KOPS (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Handbook on Stiffness and Damping in Mechanical Design,. ASME Press, New York, 2010, 754 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7918-0293-9. The ASME Member Price is US $ 137, and the non-member price is US $ 175.

    • In Memoriam: John Eldon (Jack) Renaud 

      Stephen Batill (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      John Eldon (Jack) Renaud, Ph.D., P.E., of Niles, Michigan, passed away on March 18, 2011, at the age of 50. Jack had a distinguished career in industry and academia, and he was an active ...

    • Multi-Objective Robust Optimization Under Interval Uncertainty Using Online Approximation and Constraint Cuts 

      W. Hu; S. Azarm; A. Almansoori; M. Li (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Many engineering optimization problems are multi-objective, constrained and have uncertainty in their inputs. For such problems it is desirable to obtain solutions that are multi-objectively optimum ...

    • Industrial Research Contributions 

      Panos Y. Papalambros (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Would authors working in industry be welcome contributors to JMD? The answer is an emphatic “yes, indeed!” but the reality is that authors from industry are a small minority relative to authors ...

    • Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis With Respect to Bounds of Truncated Distributions 

      H. Millwater; Y. Feng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Bounds on variables are often implemented as a part of a quality control program to ensure a sufficient pedigree of a product component, and these bounds may significantly affect the product’s ...

    • An Investigation of Root Stresses of Hypoid Gears with Misalignments 

      M. A. Hotait; A. Kahraman; T. Nishino (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      In this study, the impact of misalignments on root stresses of hypoid gear sets is investigated experimentally and theoretically. An experimental set-up designed to allow operation of a hypoid ...

    • A Generalized Complementary Intersection Method (GCIM) for System Reliability Analysis 

      Pingfeng Wang; Chao Hu; Byeng D. Youn (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper presents a Generalized Complementary Intersection Method (GCIM) that can predict system reliability for series, parallel, and mixed systems. The GCIM is an extension of the original ...

    • Toward a Better Understanding of Model Validation Metrics 

      Yu Liu; Wei Chen; Paul Arendt; Hong-Zhong Huang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Model validation metrics have been developed to provide a quantitative measure that characterizes the agreement between predictions and observations. In engineering design, the metrics become useful ...

    • An Approach Toward Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Product Concept and Design Selection 

      Shun Takai; Vivek K. Jikar; Kenneth M. Ragsdell (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper proposes an approach to integrate top-down and bottom-up procedures for product concept and design selection. The top-down procedure identifies relationships between product requirements ...

    • An Improved Kriging-Assisted Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm 

      Mian Li (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Although Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGAs) have been widely used in engineering design optimization, the important challenge still faced by researchers in using ...

    • The Cardiolock Project: Design of an Active Stabilizer for Cardiac Surgery 

      Wael Bachta; Pierre Renaud; Edouard Laroche; Jacques Gangloff (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Coronary artery bypass grafting is a common surgical procedure that requires a high level of accuracy. To perform this procedure on a beating heart, surgeons reduce the heart motion with passive ...

    • Wrench-Closure Workspace Generation for Cable Driven Parallel Manipulators Using a Hybrid Analytical-Numerical Approach 

      Darwin Lau; Denny Oetomo; Saman K. Halgamuge (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      In this paper, a technique to generate the wrench-closure workspace for general case completely restrained cable driven parallel mechanisms is proposed. Existing methods can be classified as ...

    • Synthesis of Compliant Multistable Mechanisms Through Use of a Single Bistable Mechanism 

      Guimin Chen; Yanjie Gou; Aimei Zhang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      A compliant multistable mechanism is capable of steadily staying at multiple distinct positions without power input. Many applications including switches, valves, relays, positioners, and reconfigurable ...

    • Engineering Design: A Foundation for a 21st Century Renaissance 

      James J. Duderstadt (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Engineers understand well the importance of design as the culmination of the engineering process, the ultimate application of science and technology to meet the needs of society. As such, ...

    • Evaluating Wikis as a Communicative Medium for Collaboration Within Colocated and Distributed Engineering Design Teams 

      Lorraine G. Kisselburgh; Karthik Ramani; E. Daniel Hirleman; Maria C. Yang; Carolynn J. Walthall; Srikanth Devanathan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Wikis, freely editable collections of web pages, exhibit potential for a flexible documentation and communication tool for collaborative design tasks as well as support for team design thinking ...

    • Design and Development of a Sun Tracking Mechanism Using the Direct SMA Actuation 

      N. Jeya Ganesh; A. R. Srinivasa; S. Maniprakash; L. Chandrasekaran; S. M. Srinivasan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      An attempt has been made in this work to develop a simple yet efficient sun tracking mechanism (SSTM) using smart shape memory alloy (SMA). This mechanism is directly activated by the sun ...

    • Incorporating Moldability Considerations During the Design of Polymer Heat Exchangers 

      Juan Cevallos; S. K. Gupta; Avram Bar-Cohen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Recently, available formulations of thermally enhanced polymer composites are attractive in heat exchanger applications due to their low cost and improved corrosion resistance compared to the ...

    • An Introduction to Multilayer Lamina Emergent Mechanisms 

      Paul S. Gollnick; Spencer P. Magleby; Larry L. Howell (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Multiple-layer lamina emergent mechanisms (MLEMs) are the mechanisms made from multiple sheets (lamina) of material with motion that emerges out of the fabrication plane. Understanding how layers ...