Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Design of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Morphing Laminar Wing With Flexible Extrados
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)An active structure of a morphing wing designed for subsonic cruise flight conditions is composed of three principal subsystems: (1) flexible extrados, (2) rigid intrados, and (3) an actuator ... -
Design of a Bone Transport Device Using Smart Material Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The ultimate goal of our research is to develop a wireless, remotely activated, and implantable bone transport (lengthening) device. Our device is subcutaneously mounted on the periosteal surface ... -
Development of a Simple Morphing Wing Using Elastomeric Composites as Skins and Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Morphing wings are desired for their ability to reduce drag, to change flight characteristics, and perhaps to reduce weight by eliminating flap/aileron mechanisms. Development of two generations ... -
Sensing Behavior of Magnetorheological Elastomers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) is comprised of ferromagnetic particles aligned in a polymer medium by exposure to a magnetic field. The structures of the magnetic particles within elastomers ... -
Including Preference in Anthropometry-Driven Models for Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In the design of artifacts that interact with people, the spatial dimensions of the target user population are often used to determine the requirements of the engineered artifact. The expected ... -
Optimal Splines for Rigid Motion Systems: Benchmarking and Extensions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper illustrates the power and versatility of the convex programming framework for optimal spline synthesis that was developed in a companion paper (, , , , , and , 2009, “Optimal ... -
Synthesis of a Rear Wheel Suspension Mechanism With Pure Rectilinear Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper focuses on the synthesis of an independent suspension that can guide the wheel to track a straight line when moving up (jounce) and down (rebound). With displacement subgroups, it ... -
Estimating Gear Tooth Surface Geometry by Means of the Vibration Measurement: Distinction of the Vibration Characteristics of Gears With Tooth Surface Form Error
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Tooth surface measurement is an important way to verify the quality of produced gears. To reduce inspection time and cost, only a few tooth profiles and traces on some teeth are inspected. ... -
Optimal Splines for Rigid Motion Systems: A Convex Programming Framework
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper develops a general framework to synthesize optimal polynomial splines for rigid motion systems driven by cams or servomotors. This framework is based on numerical optimization, and ... -
Kinematic Geometry of Circular Surfaces With a Fixed Radius Based on Euclidean Invariants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A circular surface with a fixed radius can be swept out by moving a circle with its center following a curve, which acts as the spine curve. Based on a system of Euclidean invariants, the ... -
An Analytical Approach to Tooth Friction Losses in Spur and Helical Gears—Influence of Profile Modifications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)An original displacement-based formulation of tooth friction power losses in spur and helical gears is established, which can account for the influence of tooth profile modifications. Several ... -
Flexible Multibody Dynamic Modeling of a Horizontal Wind Turbine Drivetrain System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A mathematical model of a horizontal wind turbine drivetrain is developed by applying the flexible multibody dynamics theory based on the Lagrange formulation. The proposed model accounts for ... -
Unified Topological Representation Models of Planar Kinematic Chains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper attempts to establish unified topological models and corresponding mathematical representations for planar simple joint, multiple joint, and geared (cam) kinematic chains. First, the ... -
A New Manipulator Based on ISMAAs and TWUSMs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Manipulators of high accuracy and flexibility call for very strict requirements when their actuating mechanisms are downsized at the millimeter scale, which opens up the investigation of several ... -
Bistable Buckled Beam: Modeling of Actuating Force and Experimental Validations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Compliant bistable mechanisms are a class of mechanical systems that benefit from both compliance, allowing easy manufacturing on a small scale, and bistability, which provides two passive and ... -
Titles and Abstracts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Expecting the arrival of a newborn member in a family is always a cause of great excitement. One of the most important tasks at that time is the selection of the child's name. In some ... -
Assembly Configurations of Spatial Single-Loop Single-DOF Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper examines the problem of finding the assembly configurations (ACs), also called circuits, of spatial single-loop single-DOF mechanisms. All six lower pairs are considered: revolute (R), ... -
Technical Briefs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)There is an ASME Journal submission type that is frequently a subject of misunderstanding and occasionally a source of ill feelings in authors: the Technical Note or Technical Brief. A note ... -
Design of Adaptive and Controllable Compliant Systems With Embedded Actuators and Sensors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)We present a framework for the design of a compliant system, i.e., the concurrent design of a compliant mechanism with embedded actuators and sensors. Our methods simultaneously synthesize optimal ... -
A Systematic Approach for Designing Multifunctional Thermally Conducting Polymer Structures With Embedded Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Thermally conductive filled polymers enable the creation of multifunctional structures that offer both anchoring points for the embedded actuators, as well as heat-dissipation functions, in order ...