Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Counterweight Balancing for Vibration Reduction of Elastically Mounted Machine Frames: A Second-Order Cone Programming Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A moving linkage exerts fluctuating forces and moments on its supporting frame. One strategy to suppress the resulting frame vibration is to reduce the exciting forces and moments by adding ... -
Dexterous Manipulation of Origami Cartons With Robotic Fingers Based on the Interactive Configuration Space
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper investigates the equivalent mechanism structure of origami cartons and for the first time proposes a quantitative model of cartons and the interactive configuration space for folding ... -
Disturbed Configuration Bifurcation Characteristics of Gough–Stewart Parallel Manipulators at Singular Points
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In this paper, the disturbed configuration bifurcation characteristics of Gough–Stewart parallel manipulators at singular points are investigated. At first, the expended equation corresponding with ... -
Mode Pursuing Sampling Method for Discrete Variable Optimization on Expensive Black-Box Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Based on previously developed Mode Pursuing Sampling (MPS) approach for continuous variables, a variation of MPS for discrete variable global optimization problems on expensive black-box functions ... -
Gear Windage: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The efficiency of power and propulsive systems is increasingly being targeted as a means of reducing environmental impact. This has caused a renewed interest in industry in the losses associated ... -
An Adaptive One-Factor-at-a-Time Method for Robust Parameter Design: Comparison With Crossed Arrays via Case Studies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper presents a conceptually simple and resource efficient method for robust parameter design. The proposed method varies control factors according to an adaptive one-factor-at-a-time plan ... -
Design Optimization With System-Level Reliability Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) of mechanical systems is computationally intensive due to the presence of two types of iterative procedures—design optimization and reliability estimation. ... -
A Design-Driven Validation Approach Using Bayesian Prediction Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In most of the existing work, model validation is viewed as verifying the model accuracy, measured by the agreement between computational and experimental results. Due to the lack of resource, ... -
Components, Building Blocks, and Demonstrations of Spherical Mechanisms in Microelectromechanical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are usually fabricated using planar processing methods, which complicates the design of devices capable of complex motions. For applications that need a ... -
Design for Manufacturing of 3D Heterogeneous Objects With Processing Time Consideration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Rapid prototyping (RP) technology, such as laser engineering net shaping, can be used to fabricate heterogeneous objects with various levels of gradient variations in material composition. These ... -
Q2S2: A New Methodology for Merging Quantitative and Qualitative Information in Experimental Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Sequential sampling refers to a set of experimental design methods where the next sample point is determined by information from previous experiments. This paper introduces a new sequential ... -
Topological and Geometrical Synthesis of Three-Degree-of-Freedom Fully Parallel Manipulators by Instantaneous Kinematics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper presents a new synthesis procedure of fully parallel manipulators (PMs) of three degrees of freedom (DOFs) that could be implemented in a computer-aided synthesis process. Possible ... -
Tooth Root Strength of Spur and Helical Gears Manufactured With Gear-Shaper Cutters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)At the beginning of gear transmission design, mainly simplified methods of gear strength analysis based on ISO or AGMA standards are used. However, they allow for calculation of approximate and ... -
Incorporating Environmental Impacts in Strategic Redesign of an Engineered System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Large engineered systems do not often live out their life cycles as originally planned. Traditional design methods do not address redesign issues that arise during long term operation of these ... -
Multifunctional Topology Design of Cellular Material Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Prismatic cellular or honeycomb materials exhibit favorable properties for multifunctional applications such as ultralight load bearing combined with active cooling. Since these properties are ... -
An Inductive Design Exploration Method for Robust Multiscale Materials Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Synthesis of hierarchical materials and products is an emerging systems design paradigm, which includes multiscale (quantum to continuum level) material simulation and product analysis models, ... -
The Synthesis of Dyads With One Prismatic Joint
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The classic Burmester problem aims at finding the geometric parameters of a planar four-bar linkage for a prescribed set of finitely separated poses. The synthesis related to the Burmester ... -
A Method to Improve Platform Leveraging in a Market Segmentation Grid for an Existing Product Line
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper describes a method for improving commonality in a highly customized low volume product line whose members were originally developed one at a time to meet specific customer requirements. ... -
Kinematic Synthesis of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper presents a kinematic procedure to synthesize planar mechanisms, composed of rigid links and revolute joints, capable of approximating a shape change defined by a set of curves. These ... -
A Kriging Metamodel Assisted Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The high computational cost of population based optimization methods, such as multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs), has been preventing applications of these methods to realistic engineering ...