Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • New Considerations on the Theory of Type Synthesis of Fully Parallel Platforms 

      José M. Rico; Gerardo Israel Pérez-Soto; Juan Rocha-Chavarría; J. Jesús Cervantes-Sánchez; Alejandro Tadeo-Chávez (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This contribution presents new considerations on the theory of type synthesis of fully parallel platforms. These considerations prove that the theory of type synthesis of fully parallel platforms ...

    • Recycling and Republishing 

      Panos Y. Papalambros (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      Recycling used resources for reuse is always good, except when it comes to our own research work. Republishing our own research should be done with extreme caution.

    • Design for Disassembly With High-Stiffness Heat-Reversible Locator-Snap Systems 

      Mohammed Shalaby; Kazuhiro Saitou (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      Recent legislative and social pressures have driven manufacturers to consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. One of the key ...

    • Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Tooth Profile Modification for Multimesh Gear Vibration 

      Gang Liu; Robert G. Parker (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This work studies the effects of tooth profile modification on multimesh gearset vibration. The nonlinear analytical model considers the dynamic load distribution between the individual gear teeth ...

    • Analytical and Numerical Dynamic Analysis of Gears in the Presence of Engine Acyclism 

      G. Sika; Ph. Velex (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      A one-degree-of-freedom model of geared transmissions is set up. It incorporates the influence of unsteady rotations due to engine speed fluctuations along with simplified time-varying mesh stiffness ...

    • Dynamic Workspace and Control of Planar Active Tensegritylike Structures 

      Andrew P. Schmalz; Sunil K. Agrawal (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This paper addresses the issues of control and workspace determination of planar active tensegrity or tensegritylike structures. The motion of such structures is generally produced by actuated ...

    • A Theoretical Approach to the Shift Mechanics of Rubber Belt Variators 

      Francesco Sorge (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This paper proposes a theoretical description of the mechanical behavior of rubber belt variators during the speed ratio shift. Comparing with the steady operation, the mass conservation of the ...

    • Design and Prototyping of a Partially Decoupled 4-DOF 3T1R Parallel Manipulator With High-Load Carrying Capacity 

      Sébastien Briot; Vigen Arakelian; Sylvain Guégan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      In this paper, a new four degrees of freedom 3T1R parallel manipulator with high-load carrying capacity is presented. This manipulator generates Schönflies motions, in which the moving ...

    • Geometry and Kinematic Analysis of a Redundantly Actuated Parallel Mechanism That Eliminates Singularities and Improves Dexterity 

      Jody A. Saglia; Darwin G. Caldwell; Jian S. Dai (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This paper investigates the behavior of a type of parallel mechanisms with a central strut. The mechanism is of lower mobility, redundantly actuated, and used for sprained ankle rehabilitation. ...

    • Compliant Wireform Mechanisms 

      Tyler M. Pendleton; Brian D. Jensen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      This paper presents an alternative to fabrication methods commonly used in compliant mechanisms research, resulting in a new class of compliant mechanisms called wireform mechanisms. This technique ...

    • Construction of Semianalytical Solutions to Spur Gear Dynamics Given Periodic Mesh Stiffness and Sliding Friction Functions 

      Song He; Todd Rook; Rajendra Singh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      Gear dynamic models with time-varying mesh stiffness, viscous mesh damping, and sliding friction forces and moments lead to complex periodic differential equations. For example, the multiplicative ...

    • A Good Review 

      Panos Y. Papalambros (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      Authors, reviewers, and editors alike wish to see good reviews for ASME manuscript submissions. So what is a good review of a manuscript?

    • Exploring the Use of Functional Models in Biomimetic Conceptual Design 

      Robert L. Nagel; Daniel A. McAdams; L. H. Shu; Prem A. Midha; Andrea Tinsley; Robert B. Stone (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      The biological world provides numerous cases for analogy and inspiration. From simple cases such as hook and latch attachments to articulated-wing flying vehicles, nature provides many sources ...

    • Reliability-Based Design Optimization Using Response Surface Method With Prediction Interval Estimation 

      Chwail Kim; K. K. Choi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      Since variances in the input variables of the engineering system cause subsequent variances in the product output performance, reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is getting much attention ...

    • Collaborative, Decentralized Engineering Design at the Edge of Rationality 

      Ashwin Gurnani; Kemper Lewis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)
      One perspective of a design process in the engineering design community is that it is largely a process marked and defined by a series of decisions. The fundamental assumption in most developed ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Our research community has benefited from the hard work of all of our Associate Editors and I would like to recognize seven whose terms have ended this year. You and even some of them may ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference was a buzz of activity that held its own against the ringing slot machines and bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Editor ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      I can recall the moment that Lung-Wen Tsai asked if I was interested in the Editorship of the Journal of Mechanical Design, because things happened so fast afterwards. Within months I was ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      About the time that I became Editor for JMD, I also chose to become more involved in project-based engineering education, and found myself humbled both by the effort involved and the dedication ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      I am honored to present this special issue on Design Engineering Education. As I have become more involved in student competition projects, I find that I am more concerned than ever about ...