Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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E-Waste Stream Analysis and Design Implications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The quantity and age of the incoming stream of “feedstock” from product take-back systems are known as the major sources of the uncertainty that complicates the e-waste recovery. This paper ... -
A Posteriori Design Change Analysis for Complex Engineering Projects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Engineering changes are an inherent part of the design and development process and can play an important role in driving the overall success of the system. This work seeks to create a ... -
The Impact of Process Architecture on Equilibrium Stability in Distributed Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In distributed design processes, individual design subsystems have local control over design variables and seek to satisfy their own individual objectives, which may also be influenced by some ... -
Multidisciplinary Optimization of Supersonic Aircraft Including Low-Boom Considerations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper presents a multidisciplinary optimization framework developed by the authors and applied to small-size supersonic aircraft. The multidisciplinary analysis suite is based on the combination ... -
Designing Complex Engineered Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)We face countless challenges in the 21st Century: national defense, building and transportation infrastructure, energy demand and clean water, frequent natural disasters, global market competition, ... -
Special Issue: Design of Complex Engineered Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)I am delighted to present to our JMD community this special issue on design of complex engineered systems. You may recall that in the December 1010 issue of JMD we hosted an inspiring guest ... -
Dimensional Design on the Six-Cable Driven Parallel Manipulator of FAST
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)China is now building the world’s largest single dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, which is called Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The main purpose of this ... -
High-Pressure Angle Gears: Comparison to Typical Gear Designs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)A preliminary study has been completed to determine the feasibility of using high-pressure angle gears in aeronautic and space applications. Tests were conducted in the NASA GRC Spur Gear Test ... -
Tooling System Design for Forming Aluminum Beverage Can End Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper proposes a new tooling system and performs an optimum design on it to minimize the amount of thinning during a forming process of aluminum beverage can end shells. Numerical ... -
Robust Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines Using Taguchi Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The robust design of horizontal axis wind turbines, including both parameter design and tolerance design, is presented. A simple way of designing robust horizontal axis wind turbine systems under ... -
Conglomerate Stabilization Curve Design Method for Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuators With Cyclic Shakedown
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The high energy density actuation potential of shape memory alloy (SMA) wire is tempered by conservative design guidelines set to mitigate complex factors such as functional fatigue (shakedown). ... -
The Modified Quadrilateral Discretization Model for the Topology Optimization of Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The modified quadrilateral discretization model for the topology optimization of compliant mechanisms is introduced in this paper. The design domain is discretized into quadrilateral design cells. ... -
Trend Mining for Predictive Product Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The Preference Trend Mining (PTM) algorithm that is proposed in this work aims to address some fundamental challenges of current demand modeling techniques being employed in the product design ... -
Design and Experimental Assessment of an Elastically Averaged Binary Manipulator Using Pneumatic Air Muscles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Prostate Interventions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Early diagnostic and treatment of prostate cancer could be achieved using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to improve tumor perceptibility. Nonetheless, performing intra-MRI interventions present ... -
Contact Characteristics of Recess Action Worm Gear Drives With Double-Depth Teeth
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Based on the previously developed mathematical model of a series of recess action (RA) worm gear drive (i.e., semi RA, full RA, and standard proportional tooth types) with double-depth teeth, ... -
Mechanically Amplified 3-DoF Nonresonant Microelectromechanical Systems Gyroscope Fabricated in Low Cost MetalMUMPs Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper introduces the design implementation of 3-DoF Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) based gyroscope concept, which allows shaping up the dynamic response without using advance control ... -
Development of a Fabrication Process for the Manufacturing of a Microspherical Probe for Coordinate Measuring Machine Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In recent years, downscaled coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are in demand and bring challenges to the development of micro/nanoscale probes for a variety of microscale structure measurement ... -
Fractal-Inspired Multifrequency Structures for Piezoelectric Harvesting of Ambient Kinetic Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Energy harvesting devices capable of converting freely-available ambient energy into electrical energy have received significant attention recently. Ambient kinetic energy is particularly attractive ... -
A Parameter Investigation Into the Thompson Constant-Velocity Coupling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The Thompson coupling is a relatively recent design of constant-velocity coupling, that is, principally based on the double Cardan mechanism. An extra mechanism comprising a spherical pantograph ... -
Analysis on Skew of Flat Belts in Two-Pulley Drives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)A troublesome problem in flat belt transmission is a phenomenon known as skew, where the belt moves along the axial direction of the pulleys in operation. Skew usually is caused by angular ...