Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Parallel Kinematic Machines: Design, Analysis and Simulation in an Integrated Virtual Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Selecting a configuration for a machine tool that will best suit the needs of a forecast set of requirements can be a difficulty and costly exercise. This problem can now be addressed using ... -
Mechanical Design of Compliant Microsystems—A Perspective and Prospects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The field of microsystems, or microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as it is popularly known, is a truly multidisciplinary area of research. It combines a wide variety of physical, chemical, and ... -
Analysis and Design of Protein Based Nanodevices: Challenges and Opportunities in Mechanical Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Nanomachines are devices that are in the size range of billionths of meters (10−9m) and therefore are built necessarily from individual atoms. These devices will have intrinsic mobilities that ... -
Enhancing Discrete Choice Demand Modeling for Decision-Based Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Our research is motivated by the need for developing an approach to demand modeling that is critical for assessing the profit a product can bring under the decision-based design framework. ... -
Design and Optimization of a Mechanism for Out-of-Plane Insect Winglike Motion With Twist
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A mechanism is presented that can generate insect winglike motion. This motion includes both flapping out of the stroke plane in addition to twist of the wing. The mechanism has a single ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Mechanisms for Path Generation Using Refined Numerical Representation Based Model and AIS Based Searching Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper presents an optimal synthesis method for path generation of planar mechanisms, in which a new path-description method named refined numerical representation is proposed to define the ... -
Platform Selection Under Performance Bounds in Optimal Design of Product Families
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Designing a family of product variants that share some components usually requires a compromise in performance relative to the individually optimized variants due to the commonality constraints. ... -
Biomedical Assist Devices and New Biomimetic Machines—A Short Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Over the last few decades, new engineering designs have made tremendous impact on the healthcare industry with solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and therapy of a wide range of medical conditions. ... -
Transpermanent Magnetics Using Alternating Uniform Linear Stacks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper we apply recent developments in transpermanent magnetics to the problem of ultra-low-power valve control. Whereas the traditional approach to ultra-low-power valve control is based ... -
Matrix Representation of Topological Changes in Metamorphic Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Metamorphic mechanisms form a class of mechanisms that has the facilities to change configuration from one kind to another with a resultant change in the number of effective links and mobility ... -
Target Management in Complex System Design Using System Norms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The problem of setting, balancing, and determining priorities of design targets among the subsystems constituting an engineering system, i.e., managing the targets, is addressed. A new norm-based ... -
Mechanics of Serpentine Belt Drives with Tensioner Assemblies and Belt Bending Stiffness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Steady state analysis is conducted on a multipulley serpentine belt drive with a spring-loaded tensioner assembly. Classical creep theory is extended to incorporate belt bending stiffness as well ... -
Suspension Synthesis for N:1 Roll Center Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A dimensional synthesis procedure to achieve prescribed roll center height variation of a vehicle’s sprung mass with respect to wheel jounce-rebound is presented. This may be used to size the ... -
Design of Multimaterial Compliant Mechanisms Using Level-Set Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A monolithic compliant mechanism transmits applied forces from specified input ports to output ports by elastic deformation of its comprising materials, fulfilling required functions analogous to ... -
On the Effect of Dual Weights in Computer Aided Design of Rational Motions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In recent years, it has become well known that rational Bézier and B-spline curves in the space of dual quaternions correspond to rational Bézier and B-spline motions. However, the ... -
Computer Aided Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis in Cylindrical Worm Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A method for computer aided loaded tooth contact analysis in different types of cylindrical worm gears is proposed. The method covers both cases—that of the theoretical line and point contact. ... -
Improving an Ergonomics Testing Procedure via Approximation-based Adaptive Experimental Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Adaptive design refers to experimental design where the next sample point is determined by information from previous experiments. This article presents a constrained optimization algorithm known ... -
Metamodeling Development for Vehicle Frontal Impact Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Response surface methods or metamodels are commonly used to approximate large computationally expensive engineering systems. Five response surface methods are studied: Stepwise Regression, Moving ... -
Synthesis of the Base Curves For N-Lobed Elliptical Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Motivated by the need to synthesize the tooth profiles of noncircular gears, we approach the synthesis of the tooth profile of circular spur gears using their pitch circle, rather than their ... -
Mathematical Model and Surface Deviation of Cylindrical Gears With Curvilinear Shaped Teeth Cut by a Hob Cutter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The generating motion of a cylindrical gear with curvilinear shaped teeth cut by a CNC hobbing machine is proposed. On the basis of the cutting mechanism and the gear theory, the surface ...