Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Automated Hierarchical Assembly System Construction in Automobile Body Assembly Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)DFA (design for assembly) is an approach to designing products with ease of assembly in mind. Multilayer assembly system construction and possible assembly sequencing are important information ... -
Meshing Analysis of the Planetary Indexing Cam Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The planetary indexing cam mechanism is a type of indexing cam mechanism that employs planetary transmission structure. The mechanism is unusual compared to other planar cam mechanisms for the ... -
Discussion: “New Analytical Model of Bolted Joints” (Zhang, Ouqi and Poirier, Jason A., 2004, ASME J. Mech. Design., 126, pp. 721–728)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The paper, New Analytical Model of Bolted Joints, published in the July 2004 issue of the Journal of Mechanical Design by Zhang and Poirier, is very much appreciated. Besides the analytical ... -
Tripod Dynamics and Its Inertia Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper the tripod dynamics and its inertia effect is studied. The tripod design is becoming popular for the development of parallel kinematic machines (PKMs). The combination of a tripod ... -
A DH-Parameter Based Condition for 3R Orthogonal Manipulators to Have Four Distinct Inverse Kinematic Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Positioning 3R manipulators may have two or four inverse kinematic solutions (IKS). This paper derives a necessary and sufficient condition for 3R positioning manipulators with orthogonal joint ... -
Mobility Analysis of RSSR Mechanisms by Working Volume
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)An RSSR mechanism is analyzed by treating the linkage as two manipulators. The mobility region of the input link or the output link is derived from the intersection region of the working ... -
Design of Vibration Absorbers for Step Motions and Step Disturbances
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Mechanical systems with flexible dynamics often suffer from vibration induced by changes in the reference command or from external disturbances. The technique of adding a vibration absorber has ... -
Conjugation Criterion for Making Clearance of the Meshed Helical Surfaces1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The meshing clearance of the helical surfaces under the condition of conjugation is studied in depth in this paper, which is significant to industrial practice as well as scholastic field. A ... -
Decision-Based Conceptual Design: Modeling and Navigating Heterogeneous Design Spaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Information gathering and refinement are critical activities in conceptual design. A decision-based framework is developed consisting of three main components: a flexible, extensible design space ... -
Simplified Kinematic Analysis of Bevel Epicyclic Gear Trains With Application to Power-Flow and Efficiency Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A kinematic analysis technique is introduced to find the angular velocities of all links in bevel epicyclic gear trains. The method relies on previous work in graph theory. It improves on ... -
Rotor Profiles Synthesis for Lobe Pumps With Given Flow Rate Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper we present a complete synthesis procedure for lobe pumps with required flow rate functions. A dimensionless flow rate expression, called the “specific flow rate,” is used for our ... -
Launching Performance Analysis of a Continuously Variable Transmission Vehicle With Different Torsional Couplings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This article describes the launching behaviors of passenger cars equipped with continuously variable transmission (CVT), which have different torsional couplings: a torsion damper and a dual mass ... -
Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Dual-Clutch Automated Lay-Shaft Transmission
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper presents a systematic model for the simulation and analysis of a power-shift transmission that features a dual-clutch design. The paper models the kinematics, dynamics, and control ... -
Numerical Analysis and Design for a Higher Jumping Rescue Robot Using a Pneumatic Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper describes the numerical analysis and design for a higher jumping rescue robot using a pneumatic cylinder. First, the basic equations for jumping are derived and the simulation is ... -
Incorporating Uncertainty in Diagnostic Analysis of Mechanical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The increase in complexity of modern mechanical systems can often lead to systems that are difficult to diagnose and, therefore, require a great deal of time and money to return to a normal ... -
Numerical Analysis on the Performance of Control Valve in Variable Displacement Wobble Plate Compressor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The performance of control valve is analyzed in this paper in order to study characteristics of the variable displacement wobble plate compressor. The forces acting on the control valve are ... -
Shaking Force and Shaking Moment Balancing of Mechanisms: A Historical Review With New Examples
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper deals with the solutions of the problem of the shaking force and shaking moment balancing of planar mechanisms by different methods based on the generation of the movements of ... -
Multidimensional Clustering Interpretation and Its Application to Optimization of Coolant Passages of a Turbine Blade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A data-clustering method can be a useful tool for engineering design that is based on numerical optimization. The clustering method is an effective way of producing representative designs, or ... -
Fourier Methods for Kinematic Synthesis of Coupled Serial Chain Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Single degree-of-freedom coupled serial chain (SDCSC) mechanisms are a class of mechanisms that can be realized by coupling successive joint rotations of a serial chain linkage, by way of gears ... -
Graphical Methods to Locate the Secondary Instant Centers of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Indeterminate Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper presents graphical techniques to locate the unknown instantaneous centers of zero velocity of planar, single-degree-of-freedom, linkages with kinematic indeterminacy. The approach is to ...