Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Effective Age of Remanufactured Products: An Entropy Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Product take-back and remanufacturing systems are difficult to implement cost effectively. One contributing factor is the complex nature of the inter-relationships among components of a product. ... -
Design and Manufacture of Spiral Bevel Gears With Reduced Transmission Errors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A method for the determination of the optimal polynomial functions for the conduction of machine-tool setting variations in pinion teeth finishing in order to reduce the transmission errors in ... -
Design and Error Analysis of Multiball Artifact Composed of Simple Features to Evaluate Pitch Measurement Accuracy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The strength and vibration/noise of gears are influenced by the pitch deviation of micrometer order and therefore, advanced quality control is needed in gear manufacturing processes using measuring ... -
Complementary Intersection Method for System Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Although researchers desire to evaluate system reliability accurately and efficiently over the years, little progress has been made on system reliability analysis. Up to now, bound methods for ... -
A Metamodeling Approach for Uncertainty Analysis of Nondeterministic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Modern complex engineering applications are often nondeterministic systems that include sources of uncertainty that cannot be parametrized numerically; this is unparametrizable uncertainty. One example ... -
High-Stiffness, Lock-and-Key Heat-Reversible Locator-Snap Systems for the Design for Disassembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Driven by the moral sense of obligation, legislative and social pressures, manufacturers now consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. ... -
Time for Design Innovation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)I had mentioned in my April 2008 editorial that design innovation papers are both important for JMD and challenging to author and to review. We have been fortunate that we now have a special ... -
A Product Dissection-Based Methodology to Benchmark Product Family Design Alternatives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Today’s companies are pressured to develop platform-based product families to increase variety, while keeping production costs low. Determining why a platform works, and alternatively why it does ... -
Improving the B-Spline Method of Dynamically-Compensated Cam Design by Minimizing or Restricting Vibrations in High-Speed Cam-Follower Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents an improved method for dynamically-compensated (tuned) cam design by minimizing or restricting vibrations in high-speed cam-follower systems. Using this approach, cams can be ... -
An Optimum Design of Crowned Cylindrical Roller Bearings Using Genetic Algorithms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The long fatigue life is the one of the most important criterion for the design of rolling bearings, however, due to complex and diverse internal geometries, each type of rolling bearings ... -
Novel Third-Order Correction for a Helical Gear Shaping Cutter Made by a Lengthwise-Reciprocating Grinding Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Although the Isoform® lengthwise-reciprocating grinding process is considered as one of the most accurate methods for generating the tooth profile geometry of a helical gear shaping cutter, ... -
JMD Editorial Board
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)All scholars know that preparing a manuscript of new research work for scholarly publication is a lot of work. Shepherding a submitted manuscript to its eventual publication among meritorious ... -
A Deterministic Lagrangian-Based Global Optimization Approach for Quasiseparable Nonconvex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)We propose a deterministic approach for global optimization of nonconvex quasiseparable problems encountered frequently in engineering systems design. Our branch and bound-based optimization algorithm ... -
An Efficient Re-Analysis Methodology for Probabilistic Vibration of Large-Scale Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Probabilistic analysis and design of large-scale structures requires repeated finite-element analyses of large models, and each analysis is expensive. This paper presents a methodology for probabilistic ... -
A Continuous Protein Design Model Using Artificial Power Law in Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A continuous protein synthesis formulation based on the design principles applied to topology optimization problems is proposed in this paper. In contrast to conventional continuous protein design ... -
Position Analysis, Workspace, and Optimization of a 3-P̱PS Spatial Manipulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The present paper describes the analytical solution of position kinematics for a three degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator. It also provides a numeric example of workspace calculation and a ... -
Design of Perfectly Statically Balanced One-DOF Planar Linkages With Revolute Joints Only
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A systematic methodology for the design of a statically balanced, single degree-of-freedom planar linkage is presented. This design methodology is based on the concept of conservation of potential ... -
A Pressure Angle Function Method for Describing Tooth Profiles of Planar Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A general mathematical model for describing the geometries and the geometric characteristics of meshing tooth profiles of planar gears is established. The function of pressure angle in the angular ... -
Design of Electrothermally Compliant MEMS With Hexagonal Cells Using Local Temperature and Stress Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In this paper, meso- and microscale electrothermally compliant mechanical systems are synthesized for strength, with polysilicon as the structural material. Local temperature and/or stress constraints ... -
Geometric Optimization of Spatial Compliant Mechanisms Using Three-Dimensional Wide Curves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A three-dimensional wide curve is a spatial curve with variable cross sections. This paper introduces a geometric optimization method for spatial compliant mechanisms by using three-dimensional ...