Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Consistency Constraint Allocation in Augmented Lagrangian Coordination
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Many engineering systems are too complex to design as a single entity. Decomposition-based design optimization methods partition a system design problem into subproblems, and coordinate subproblem ... -
Evaluating End-of-Life Recovery Profit by a Simultaneous Consideration of Product Design and Recovery Network Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Product recovery has become a field of rapidly growing interest for product manufacturers as a promising solution for product stewardship as well as for economic viability. Because product ... -
An Ease-Off Based Method for Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis of Hypoid Gears Having Local and Global Surface Deviations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Actual hypoid gear tooth surfaces do deviate from the theoretical ones either globally due to manufacturing errors or locally due to reasons such as tooth surface wear. A practical methodology ... -
On the Performance of the PSP Method for Mixed-Variable Multi-Objective Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Practical design optimization problems require use of computationally expensive “black-box” functions. The Pareto set pursuing (PSP) method, for solving multi-objective optimization problems with ... -
Blind and at Arm's Length
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Who would wish to be blind and kept at arm's length? Would we wish that for a JMD reviewer? -
Direct Linearization Method Kinematic Variation Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Velocity and acceleration analysis is an important tool for predicting the motion of mechanisms. The results, however, may be inaccurate when applied to manufactured products due to the process ... -
Enumeration of Feasible Clutching Sequences of Epicyclic Gear Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)A new methodology for enumeration of feasible clutching sequences of epicyclic gear mechanism (EGM) composed of two or more fundamental gear entities is presented. The method relies on previous ... -
Factors Affecting Transmission Error in Helical Synchronous Belt With Error on Belt Side Face Under Bidirectional Operation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Helical synchronous belt drives are effective for reducing the noise and transmission error per single pitch of a pulley, as compared with conventional synchronous belt drives. However, the helix ... -
Creating Polytope Representations of Design Spaces for Visual Exploration Using Consistency Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Understanding the limits of a design is an important aspect of the design process. When mathematical models are constructed to describe a design concept, the limits are typically expressed as ... -
Design Improvement by Sensitivity Analysis Under Interval Uncertainty Using Multi-Objective Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Uncertainty in the input parameters to an engineering system may not only degrade the system’s performance but may also cause failure or infeasibility. This paper presents a new sensitivity ... -
Integration of Sustainability Into Early Design Through the Function Impact Matrix
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The issue of environmental sustainability, which is unprecedented in both magnitude and complexity, presents one of the biggest challenges faced by modern society. Design engineers can make ... -
Design of Single-Input-Single-Output Compliant Mechanisms for Practical Applications Using Selection Maps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We present an interactive map-based technique for designing single-input-single-output compliant mechanisms that meet the requirements of practical applications. Our map juxtaposes user-specifications ... -
Aggregation and Multilevel Design for Systems: Finding Guidelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)All areas of engineering have a need to find appropriate aggregated outcomes for systems. Issues range from decision problems, “divide-and-conquer” approaches that include aspects of multidisciplinary ... -
Progressive Design Processes and Bounded Rational Designers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper presents a method for assessing the quality of a progressive design process by measuring the profitability of the product that the process generates. The proposed approach uses ... -
A Generalized Constraint Model for Two-Dimensional Beam Flexures: Nonlinear Load-Displacement Formulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)To utilize beam flexures in constraint-based flexure mechanism design, it is important to develop qualitative and quantitative understanding of their constraint characteristics in terms of stiffness ... -
Design of Adaptive Cores of Sandwich Structures Using a Compliant Unit Cell Approach and Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper presents a new method in designing the core layer of adaptive sandwich structures. The proposed design formulation treats the core layer as a compliant unit cell network while the ... -
A Generalized Constraint Model for Two-Dimensional Beam Flexures: Nonlinear Strain Energy Formulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The beam constraint model (BCM), presented previously, captures pertinent nonlinearities to predict the constraint characteristics of a generalized beam flexure in terms of its stiffness and error ... -
Capitalizing on Heterogeneity and Anisotropy to Design Desirable Hardware That is Difficult to Reverse Engineer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper presents a method for treating material microstructure (crystallographic grain size, orientation, and distribution) as design variables that can be manipulated—for common or exotic ... -
Combining Dynamic Modeling With Geometric Constraint Management to Support Low Clearance Virtual Manual Assembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This research presents a novel approach to virtual assembly that combines dynamic modeling with geometric constraint-based modeling to support low clearance manual assembly of CAD models. This ... -
An Invitation to a Broader Discourse
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We write JMD papers to communicate our ideas and findings to our peer researchers and practitioners. But how do we discuss these ideas and findings among ourselves? How do we create a ...