Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Disassembly Scoring Framework for Human–Robot Collaboration Based on Robotic Capabilities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Product disassembly is integral to remanufacturing and recovery operations of end-of-use devices. Traditionally, disassembly has been conducted manually with significant safety risks to human workers. In recent years, ... -
Accessible Digital Reconstruction and Mechanical Prediction of 3D-Printed Prosthetics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We identify two significant issues that render prosthetics inaccessible. First, obtaining a representation of the residual limb can be inaccessible. Conventional approaches require equipment or expertise often unavailable ... -
Developing Heuristics for Resource Allocation and Utilization in Systems Design: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Systems design involves decomposing a system into interconnected subsystems and allocating resources to teams responsible for designing each subsystem. The outcomes of the process depend on how well limited resources are ... -
Gaussian Processes for Design Using Nondifferentiable Functions With Jump Discontinuities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Available Gaussian processes (GPs) are inappropriate when used to globally emulate and optimize nondifferentiable functions with jump discontinuities. This is a substantial limitation as many contemporary engineering ... -
Simultaneous Thermal–Electrical Cloak and Camouflage Via Level-Set-Based Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Cloaks are devices designed to conceal objects from detection. With the advancement of metamaterials, there is an increasing interest in developing multifunctional cloaks to cater to various application scenarios. This ... -
DARTS-NETGAB: Design Automation and Real-Time Simulation Using Neural Network Ensembles for Turbocompressors on Gas-Bearings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)DARTS-NETGAB is a unified framework for real-time simulation and automated design of gas-bearing supported turbocompressors, facilitating efficient transition from optimization to manufacturable designs. The framework ... -
Multidisciplinary Modeling and Control Co-Design of a Floating Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study investigates the modeling and design of a floating vertical-axis wind turbine (FloatVAWT) system with multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) and control co-design (CCD) approaches. By integrating various ... -
Enhancing Bayesian Inference-Based Damage Diagnostics Through Domain Translation With Application to Miter Gates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Bayesian inference based on computational simulations plays a crucial role in model-informed damage diagnostics and the design of reliable engineering systems, such as the miter gates studied in this article. While Bayesian ... -
Investigating Unconscious Verbal Mimicry as a Measure of Empathy in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Developing empathy toward a user is a vital part of user-centered design. Several approaches developed in psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have been adopted in measuring empathy in design. However, these approaches ... -
Who Does Design Research Serve? A Critical Evaluation of the Diversity of Samples Studied in Design Theory and Methods Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Human subjects are often used in design theory and methods studies to understand how designers behave and link behaviors with design outcomes. We highlight that much of our past work and resultant knowledge in design theory ... -
Metamorphic Flexure Bearings for Extended Range of Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Flexure bearings provide precise, low-maintenance operation but have a limited range of motion compared to conventional bearings. Here, we introduce a new class of bearing—the metamorphic flexure bearing—that not only ... -
Presenting Hackathon Data for Design Research: A Transcript Dataset
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Hackathons are intensive design experiences during which teams identify a problem and rapidly develop prototypes of solutions. These events offer a promising venue for studying collaborative design: they are naturalistic, ... -
HUVER: The HyForm Uncrewed Vehicle Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This paper introduces the HyForm uncrewed vehicle engineering repository (HUVER), -
HM-SYNC: A Multimodal Dataset of Human Interactions With Advanced Manufacturing Machinery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A deep understanding of manufacturing processes is essential for advancing manufacturing-oriented design and engineering complex systems. As advanced manufacturing technologies evolve, systems have grown more complex, and ... -
Advancing Soft Robotics: A High Energy-Efficient Actuator Design Using Single-Tube Pneumatic for Bidirectional Movement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Soft robotics offers unprecedented adaptability and safety in human–machine interactions but faces challenges in achieving energy-efficient bidirectional movement with simplified pneumatic systems. This study introduces ... -
DrivAerNet: A Parametric Car Dataset for Data-Driven Aerodynamic Design and Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study introduces DrivAerNet, a large-scale high-fidelity CFD dataset of 3D industry-standard car shapes, and RegDGCNN, a dynamic graph convolutional neural network model for regression, both aimed at aerodynamic car ... -
Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design Fine Tuned: Dataset and Experiments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Despite the power of large language models (LLMs) in various cross-modal generation tasks, their ability to generate 3D computer-aided design (CAD) models from text remains underexplored due to the scarcity of suitable ... -
Considering Boundary Conditions in the Design of Compliant Mechanisms With Desired Force Profiles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Compliant mechanisms can be designed to exhibit a variety of force–deflection curves. Demonstrating a specific force behavior is an integral part of many of their applications. In this work, we select several fundamental ... -
Analytical Planar Design of Multiaxial Rigid Load-Bearing Tendon-Constrained Inflatables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Deployable load-bearing structures are useful for confined or temporary settings due to their stowability and deployability. Designing these structures involves balancing package dimensions with load-bearing capacity—defined ... -
Motion Analysis and Orientation Holding Control of a 3-RRR Rigid-Flexible Coupling Mechanism for Photovoltaic Panel Assembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This article is concerned with the design and control of a 3-Revolute-Revolute-Revolute Parallel Manipulator (3-RRR) rigid-flexible coupling mechanism, to meet the high flexibility and stability requirements for holding ...