Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      I am coming to the final months of my term as Editor, and I confess that the production backlog has not budged since my first day on the job. Authors' concerns about the backlog have ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      As the submissions to the Journal of Mechanical Design have grown over the past years, so has the recognition that our community includes systems and components as separate but tightly related ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      It is a new year and the first of the monthly issues of the Journal of Mechanical Design. A little over two years ago, the Journal published around 100 papers in four issues, and now we ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Even with the convenience of on-line access, I know that one group of individuals enjoys flipping through the hard copy of the Journal of Mechanical Design, examining the table of contents ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      I am looking forward to this year's International Design Engineering Technical Conference, which occurs September 4–7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be my last IDETC as Editor of JMD, and ...

    • Modeling of Spur and Helical Gear Planetary Drives With Flexible Ring Gears and Planet Carriers 

      V. Abousleiman; P. Velex; S. Becquerelle (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A model is presented which enables the simulation of the three-dimensional static and dynamic behavior of planetary/epicyclic spur and helical gears with deformable parts. The contributions of ...

    • Virtual-Power Flow and Mechanical Gear-Mesh Power Losses of Epicyclic Gear Trains 

      Chao Chen; Jorge Angeles (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The concept of virtual power is first defined as the power measured, in a noninertial frame, in an epicyclic gear train. We then introduce the concept of virtual-power ratio, an invariant ...

    • A Compliant Transmission Mechanism With Intermittent Contacts for Cycle-Doubling 

      Nilesh D. Mankame; G. K. Ananthasuresh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A novel compliant transmission mechanism that doubles the frequency of a cyclic input is presented in this paper. The compliant cycle-doubler is a contact-aided compliant mechanism that uses ...

    • Influence of Planetary Needle Bearings on the Performance of Single and Double Pinion Planetary Systems 

      Avinash Singh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Planetary gears are widely used in automotive and aerospace applications. Due to demands for greater power density, these gearsets often operate at extremely high stress levels. This has caused ...

    • A Model for the Prediction of Churning Losses in Geared Transmissions—Preliminary Results 

      C. Changenet; P. Velex (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A series of formulas are presented which enable accurate predictions of churning losses for one pinion characteristic of automotive transmission geometry. The results are based on dimensional ...

    • A Study of the Relationship Between the Dynamic Factors and the Dynamic Transmission Error of Spur Gear Pairs 

      V. K. Tamminana; S. Vijayakar; A. Kahraman (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      In this study, two different dynamic models, a finite-element-based deformable-body model and a simplified discrete model, are developed to predict dynamic behavior of spur gear pairs. Dynamic ...

    • Prediction of Mechanical Efficiency of Parallel-Axis Gear Pairs 

      H. Xu; N. E. Anderson; D. G. Maddock; A. Kahraman (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A computational model is proposed for the prediction of friction-related mechanical efficiency losses of parallel-axis gear pairs. The model incorporates a gear load distribution model, a friction ...

    • Calculation of Tooth Bending Strength and Surface Durability of High Transverse Contact Ratio Spur and Helical Gear Drives 

      José I. Pedrero; Izaskun I. Vallejo; Miguel Pleguezuelos (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Calculation methods of spur and helical gear drives with a transverse contact ratio higher than 2, accurate enough for preliminary designs or standardization purposes, are not available in ...

    • An Introduction of a Novel Friction Drive: Metal Belt Drive With Magnets 

      Shanming Luo; Yue Wu; Yidao Yu; Shimin Zhu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A novel friction drive—a metal belt drive with magnets (MBDM)—is proposed in this paper, and its structure and principle are introduced. Based on theories of friction drive and electromagnetism, ...

    • Load Distribution in Spiral Bevel Gears 

      Vilmos Simon (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A new approach for the computerized simulation of load distribution in mismatched spiral bevel gears with point contact is presented. The loaded tooth contact is treated in a special way: it ...

    • Mathematical Model for a Universal Face Hobbing Hypoid Gear Generator 

      Yi-Pei Shih; Grandle C. Lin; Zhang-Hua Fong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Based on the theory of gearing and differential geometry, a universal hypoid generator mathematical model for face hobbing spiral bevel and hypoid gears has been developed. This model can be ...

    • Finite Element Modeling of Self-Loosening of Bolted Joints 

      Ming Zhang; Chu-Hwa Lee; Yanyao Jiang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      A three-dimensional finite element (FE) model with the consideration of the helix angle of the threads was developed to simulate the second stage self-loosening of a bolted joint. The second ...

    • On the Dynamic Balancing of Multi-DOF Parallel Mechanisms With Multiple Legs 

      Yangnian Wu; Clément M. Gosselin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      This paper addresses the dynamic balancing of multi-degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) parallel mechanisms with multiple legs using the dynamic equivalence between point masses and arbitrary moving ...

    • Optimum Kinetimatics Design of Drives for Wheeled Mobile Robots Based on Cam-Roller Pairs 

      Chao Chen; Jorge Angeles (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      This paper proposes innovative drives for omnidirectional and quasi-omni-directional wheeled mobile robots. A novel epicyclic cam transmission is developed to transmit motion in the drives, with ...

    • Towards Rapid Redesign: Pattern-based Redesign Planning for Large-Scale and Complex Redesign Problems 

      Simon Li; Li Chen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      We have developed a decomposition-based rapid redesign methodology for large and complex computational redesign problems. While the overall methodology consists of two general steps: diagnosis and ...