Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Kinematics and Dynamics of a Self-Stressed Cartesian Cable-Driven Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A novel hybrid cable-driven mechanism with Cartesian motion is introduced. It consists of a rigid-link Cartesian mechanism and a cable drive system with stationary actuators to provide the motion. ... -
Design of a Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Compliant Smart Structure: Elastica Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Large displacement static analysis of a fully compliant spatial mechanism is presented here. This mechanism is made up of a superelastic nitinol pipe as its compliant structural member and ... -
A Fuzzy Method for Propagating Functional Architecture Constraints to Physical Architecture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Modular product design has received great attention for about 10 years, but few works have proposed tools to either jointly design the functional and physical architectures or propagate the ... -
The Contact Ratio of a Space-Curve Meshing-Wheel Transmission Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The space-curve meshing-wheel (SCMW) is a novel mechanical mechanism suitable for small devices. In this paper, a design formula of the contact ratio of SCMW is derived from the space-curve ... -
Geometric Design Investigation of Single Screw Compressor Rotor Grooves Produced by Cylindrical Milling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Cylindrical milling of a screw rotor groove in a single screw compressor has higher machining efficiency than turning. However, the screw groove bottom produced by the flat end of the milling ... -
GEROLAB Package System: Innovative Tool to Design a Trochoidal-Gear Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)An innovative tool for the improvement of the design methodology of a trochoidal gear, which works as a part of a hydraulic pump, is introduced. For the past few years, new, specific, and ... -
Time-Dependent Reliability Estimation for Dynamic Problems Using a Niching Genetic Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A time-dependent reliability analysis method is presented for dynamic systems under uncertainty using a niching genetic algorithm (GA). The system response is modeled as a parametric random ... -
Optimal Experimental Design of Human Appraisals for Modeling Consumer Preferences in Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Human appraisals are becoming increasingly important in the design of engineering systems to link engineering design attributes to customer preferences. Human appraisals are used to assess consumers’ ... -
Optimal Product Design Under Price Competition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Engineering optimization methods for new product development model consumer demand as a function of product attributes and price in order to identify designs that maximize expected profit. However, ... -
Design Project Modularization for Product Families
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Design project management involves sophisticated task planning that needs to streamline a number of design activities while properly allocating resources associated with these activities. In the ... -
Operation and Kinematic Analysis of a Cam-Based Infinitely Variable Transmission
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In this paper, the operation and analysis of a novel, highly configurable, infinitely variable transmission of the ratcheting drive type is presented. This particular drive uses a cam and a ... -
Gripper Design With Spherical Parallelogram Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A novel spherical gripper mechanism with one degree of freedom was designed. This gripper consists of a network of spherical parallelogram mechanisms. Design limits, work space formulas, and ... -
Extension of Stress and Strength Interference Theory for Conceptual Design-for-Reliability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)It has been recognized that design-for-reliability (DFR) during the conceptual design stage is very challenging. There are several gaps and deficiencies hindering the DFR implementation. The first ... -
Innovations in Design Through Transformation: A Fundamental Study of Transformation Principles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The act of creating a new product, system, or process is an innovation; the result of excogitation, study and experimentation. It is an inductive and/or deductive process. The inductive process ... -
The Automatic Winding Device of a Mechanical Watch Movement and Its Application in Energy Harvesting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Invented more than 200 years ago, the automatic winding device of mechanical watch movement is one of the most successful energy harvesting devices. It harvests the kinematical energy from body ... -
Computational Improvements to Estimating Kriging Metamodel Parameters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The details of a method to reduce the computational burden experienced while estimating the optimal model parameters for a Kriging model are presented. A Kriging model is a type of surrogate ... -
Synthesis of Planar Rigid-Body Mechanisms Approximating Shape Changes Defined by Closed Curves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents a procedure to synthesize planar linkages, composed of rigid links and revolute joints, that are capable of approximating a shape change defined by a set of closed curves ... -
First Author
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)At one time or another, all of us have filled out a government or agency form where we are asked to list our name followed by father's name, then mother's name. The sequence of ... -
On the Torque Characteristic of a Crash-Lock Carton Base
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)An important part of some packaging cartons is the crash-lock base. A recent investigation of the torque required for its erection has made some linearizing assumptions. It is here shown that ... -
Hybrid Modeling of Ball Screw Drives With Coupled Axial, Torsional, and Lateral Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)It has been a common practice to assume that the torsional and axial dynamics are totally decoupled from the lateral dynamics of the screw when modeling ball screw drives. However, experiments ...