Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Step Function Representation of Solid Models and Application to Mesh Free Engineering Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Numerical methods for solving boundary value problems that do not require generation of mesh to approximate the analysis domain have been referred to as mesh-free methods. While many of these ... -
Spatial Mechanisms and Robot Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The subject of spatial mechanisms and robot manipulators continues to see sensational theoretical advances and exciting practical applications in fields ranging from product engineering, manufacturing, ... -
Impact of Mental Iteration on Concept Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Mental iteration in conceptual design involves repetition of cognitive activities when designers perceive discrepancies of the desired state and current state of design. Although it is believed ... -
Enumeration of Contact Geometries for Kinematic Registration Using Tactile Sensing Fixtures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper uses group theory for enumeration of contacts between geometric elements necessary for kinematic registration or part referencing in robotics. The results are applied to type synthesis ... -
Uncertainty Analysis by Dimension Reduction Integration and Saddlepoint Approximations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Uncertainty analysis, which assesses the impact of the uncertainty of input variables on responses, is an indispensable component in engineering design under uncertainty, such as reliability-based ... -
Mechanics and Sliding Friction in Belt Drives With Pulley Grooves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The steady mechanics of a two-pulley belt drive system are examined where the pulley grooves, belt extension and wedging in the grooves, and the associated friction are considered. The belt ... -
Design Optimization of Hierarchically Decomposed Multilevel Systems Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper presents a methodology for design optimization of hierarchically decomposed systems under uncertainty. We propose an extended, probabilistic version of the deterministic analytical target ... -
A Note on the Waldron Construction for Transmission Angle Rectification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Graphical methods for synthesizing planar four-bar linkage motion generators to pass through two or three precision positions are well known. However, the practicality of these methods is limited ... -
Symmetrical Coupler Curve and Singular Point Classification in Planar and Spherical Swinging-Block Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The purpose of the present paper is coupler curve synthesis and classification in planar and spherical swinging block linkages for path generation problem. It is shown that the swinging block ... -
The Design of a Chain of Spherical Stephenson Mechanisms for a Gearless Robotic Pitch-Roll Wrist
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Although bevel-gear robotic wrists are widely used in industrial manipulators due to their simple kinematics and low manufacturing cost, their gear trains function under rolling and sliding, the ... -
Development of Analytical Model of Cantilever Hook Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)With an increase in the use of polymeric materials in commercial products, snap-fits are attracting increased attention as alternatives to other, more traditional, joining methods. The field of ... -
Helical Gears, Effects of Tooth Deviations and Tooth Modifications on Load Sharing and Fillet Stresses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Based on a few specific cases, this paper presents a comparative investigation of the effect of helix slope and form deviation tolerances as specified by grades 5 and 7 of the ANSI/AGMA ISO ... -
A New Proposal for Explicit Angle Calculation in Angular Contact Ball Bearing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In order to optimize the mechanical behavior of high speed rotors, it is useful to know the load-displacement law of the angular-contact ball bearing. The relationship between preload, speed, ... -
Mechanical Design of a Robotic System for Automatic Installation of Magnetic Markers on the Roadway
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Magnetic markers embedded into the roadway pavements are used in Intelligent Transportation Systems to provide the reference signals necessary for guiding and controlling vehicles. This technology ... -
Design of High-Stiffness Five-Bar and Seven-Bar Linkage Structures by Using the Concept of Orthogonal Paths
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper presents a new approach for the synthesis of high-stiffness five-bar and seven- bar linkage structures based on the concept of orthogonal paths. The intersection point of two orthogonal ... -
Fourth-Order Kinematic Synthesis for Face-Milling Spiral Bevel Gears With Modified Radial Motion (MRM) Correction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The use of a fourth-order motion curve is proposed by Stadtfeld and Gaiser to reduce the running noise of a bevel gear set recently. However, the methodology of synthesizing the tooth surfaces ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of the Orthoglide: A Three-DOF Translational Parallel Kinematic Machine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In this paper, two complementary methods are introduced to analyze the sensitivity of a three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) translational parallel kinematic machine (PKM) with orthogonal linear joints: ... -
Geometric Design of Three-Phalanx Underactuated Fingers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper studies the grasp stability of two classes of three-phalanx underactuated fingers with transmission mechanisms based on either linkages or tendons and pulleys. The concept of underactuation ... -
Determination of the Link Lengths for a Spatial 3-DOF Parallel Manipulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper addresses the issue of determining the optimal geometric parameters of a 3-DOF parallel manipulator. One of the advantages of the manipulator is that the moving platform exhibits ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms Using Subdivision and Commercial FEA
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The field of distributed-compliance mechanisms has seen significant work in developing suitable topology optimization tools for their design. These optimal design tools have grown out of the ...