Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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The Mechanisms by Which Adaptive One-factor-at-a-time Experimentation Leads to Improvement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper examines mechanisms underlying the phenomenon that, under some conditions, adaptive one-factor-at-a-time experiments outperform fractional factorial experiments in improving the performance ... -
Kinematic, Static, and Dynamic Analysis of a Spatial Three-Degree-of-Freedom Tensegrity Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)One of the drawbacks of conventional mechanisms is the significant inertia of their moving parts. Tensegrity mechanisms, which have a reduced mass because of their extensive use of cables and ... -
Synthesis of Bistable Periodic Structures Using Topology Optimization and a Genetic Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A formulation for the automatic synthesis of two-dimensional bistable, compliant periodic structures is presented, based on standard methods for topology optimization. The design space is parametrized ... -
Computerized Modeling and Simulation of Spiral Bevel and Hypoid Gears Manufactured by Gleason Face Hobbing Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The Gleason face hobbing process has been widely applied by the gear industry. But so far, few papers have been found regarding exact modeling and simulation of the tooth surface generations ... -
Application of Matroid Method in Kinematic Analysis of Parallel Axes Epicyclic Gear Trains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A novel method for kinematic analysis of parallel-axes epicyclic gear trains is presented, called the incidence and transfer method, which uses the incidence matrices associated with the edge-oriented ... -
Nonlinear Strain Hardening Model for Predicting Clamp Load Loss in Bolted Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Closed form solution for the amount of clamp load loss due to an externally applied separating force is determined for a bolted assembly in which the fastener is initially tightened beyond ... -
A Note on the Diagonalizability and the Jordan Form of the 4×4 Homogeneous Transformation Matrix
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The 4×4 homogeneous transformation matrix is extensively used for representing rigid body displacement in 3D space and has been extensively used in the analysis of mechanisms, serial and ... -
Reduction of Stress Concentration in Bolt-Nut Connectors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Bolt-nut connectors play an important role in the safety and reliability of structural systems. Stress concentration due to unequal load distribution can cause fatigue failure in bolt-nut connectors. ... -
Analytical Behavior Law for a Constant Pitch Conical Compression Spring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Cylindrical compression spring behavior has been described in the literature using an efficient analytical model. Conical compression spring behavior has a linear phase but can also have a ... -
Solving Driving Forces of 2(3-SPR) Serial-Parallel Manipulator by CAD Variation Geometry Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A novel 2(3-SPR) serial-parallel manipulator is proposed. A novel approach for solving driving forces of the 2(3-SPR) parallel manipulator is proposed by using the virtual work theory and the ... -
Mobility of Single-Loop N-Bar Linkage With Active/Passive Prismatic Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Single-loop N-bar linkages that contain one prismatic joint are common in engineering. This type of mechanism often requires complicated control and, hence, understanding its mobility is very ... -
Erratum: “Stiffness of Cable-based Parallel Manipulators With Application to Stability Analysis” [Journal of Mechanical Design, 2006, 128(1), pp. 303–310]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Unfortunately, a sign mistake in Eq. (22) had been made and was propagated throughout the paper. According to our definition of the stiffness matrix in Eq. (4), the correct form of the ... -
Balancing Marketing and Manufacturing Objectives in Product Line Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The product development process involves communication and compromise among interacting and often competing objectives from marketing, design, and manufacturing perspectives. Methods for negotiating ... -
Integrating Target Costing Into Perception-Based Concept Evaluation of Complex and Large-Scale Systems Using Simultaneously Decomposed QFD
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In the conceptual design phase, engineers may need to perceptually screen and prioritize feasible design concepts by their potential to fulfill both customer and financial requirements. This paper ... -
Topology Optimization Using a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Method With Local Control Rules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The hybrid cellular automaton (HCA) algorithm is a methodology developed to simulate the process of structural adaptation in bones. This methodology incorporates a distributed control loop within ... -
Ultimate Limits for Counterweight Balancing of Crank-Rocker Four-Bar Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper focuses on reducing the dynamic reactions (shaking force, shaking moment, and driving torque) of planar crank-rocker four-bars through counterweight addition. Determining the counterweight ... -
Versatile Formulation for Multiobjective Reliability-Based Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper develops a multiobjective optimization methodology for system design under uncertainty. Model-based reliability analysis methods are used to compute the probabilities of unsatisfactory ... -
Robust Design of Cellular Materials With Topological and Dimensional Imperfections
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A paradigm shift is underway in which the classical materials selection approach in engineering design is being replaced by the design of material structure and processing paths on a hierarchy ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Cam-Linkage Mechanisms for Precise Path Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper proposes a method for the optimal synthesis of planar mechanisms, where a combination of cams and linkages is used in order to obtain a precise path generation. As a first step, ... -
Failure Surface Frontier for Reliability Assessment on Expensive Performance Function
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This work proposes a novel concept of failure surface frontier (FSF), which is a hyper-surface consisting of the set of non-dominated failure points on the limit states of a failure region. ...