Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Type Synthesis of 3-DOF PPR-Equivalent Parallel Manipulators Based on Screw Theory and the Concept of Virtual Chain 

      Xianwen Kong; Clément M. Gosselin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      PPR-equivalent parallel manipulators (PMs) are a class of 3-DOF PMs with great application potential. They are indeed the parallel counterparts of the 3-DOF PPR serial robots, in which the ...

    • Dynamic Formulation and Performance Comparison of the 3-DOF Modules of Two Reconfigurable PKM—the Tricept and the TriVariant 

      Meng Li; Derek G. Chetwynd; S. Jack Hu; Tian Huang; Jiangping Mei; Xueman Zhao (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      Utilizing the virtual work principle, this paper presents a method for the inverse dynamic formulation of the 3-degree-of-freedom (DOF) modules of the well-known Tricept robot and a newly invented ...

    • Express Model for Load Sharing and Stress Analysis in Helical Gears 

      Raynald Guilbault; Claude Gosselin; Louis Cloutier (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The performance of a gear set is strongly influenced by the manufacturing and assembly quality. Therefore, detailed analyses at the design stage, where the effects of expected assembly and ...

    • Kinematic and Static Analyses of Tripod Constant Velocity Joints of the Spherical End Spider Type 

      Katsumi Watanabe; Tsutomu Kawakatsu; Shouichi Nakao (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The closed-loop equations of three cylindrical rollers, the spider of three spherical ends, and the housing of the tripod constant velocity joints are deduced as the spatial mechanism. They are ...

    • Kinematic, Static, and Dynamic Analysis of a Planar One-Degree-of-Freedom Tensegrity Mechanism 

      Marc Arsenault; Clément M. Gosselin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The use of tensegrity systems as structures has been extensively studied. However, their development for use as mechanisms is quite recent even though they present such advantages as reduced ...

    • Stress Analysis of Near Optimal Surface Notches in 3D Plates 

      R. Wescott; M. Heller; B. Semple (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This paper presents a method of using two-dimensional (2D) optimal notch shapes to create near optimal surface notches with various depth and aspect ratios in uniaxially loaded three-dimensional ...

    • Interactive Visualization of the Coupler Surfaces of the Spatial 4C Mechanism 

      Pierre M. Larochelle; Agnes M. Agius (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This paper presents a methodology for generating and displaying the coupler surfaces of the spatial 4C mechanism. The 4C mechanism is a two-degree-of-freedom spatial four-bar linkage. The path ...

    • A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Mixed-Discrete Design Optimization 

      Singiresu S. Rao; Ying Xiong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      A new hybrid genetic algorithm is presented for the solution of mixed-discrete nonlinear design optimization. In this approach, the genetic algorithm (GA) is used mainly to determine the optimal ...

    • Coupler Cognates for the Double Flier Eight-Bar Linkage 

      Gordon R. Pennock; Nihar N. Raje (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      This paper presents a graphical technique to construct the coupler cognate linkages for the double flier eight-bar linkage. The technique is based on the skew pantograph construction which ...

    • A Methodology for Conceptual Design of Mechanisms by Parsing Design Specifications 

      Dar-Zen Chen; Wei-Ming Pai (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      In this paper, design specifications for the conceptual design of mechanisms are parsed into three coherent categories: functional requirements, structural requirements, and design constraints. Based ...

    • Compensation and Weights for Trade-offs in Engineering Design: Beyond the Weighted Sum 

      Michael J. Scott; Erik K. Antonsson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      Multicriteria decision support methods are common in engineering design. These methods typically rely on a summation of weighted attributes to accomplish trade-offs among competing objectives. It ...

    • Supporting Negotiations in the Early Stage of Large-Scale Mechanical System Design 

      Ping Ge; Stephen C.-Y. Lu; Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      The development of large-scale mechanical systems involves interactive negotiations among nontechnical and technical design stakeholders. Usually, two types of negotiations exist: (i) those between ...

    • Reliability-Based Design With the Mixture of Random and Interval Variables 

      Xiaoping Du; Agus Sudjianto; Beiqing Huang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      In reliability-based design (RBD), uncertainties are usually treated stochastically, and nondeterministic variables are assumed to follow certain probability distributions. However, in many practical ...

    • Analysis of Support Vector Regression for Approximation of Complex Engineering Analyses 

      Stella M. Clarke; Jan H. Griebsch; Timothy W. Simpson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      A variety of metamodeling techniques have been developed in the past decade to reduce the computational expense of computer-based analysis and simulation codes. Metamodeling is the process of ...

    • A Fuzzy Dynamic Programming Approach for the Mixed-Discrete Optimization of Mechanical Systems 

      Ying Xiong; Singiresu S. Rao (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)
      Many engineering optimization problems can be considered as multistage decision-making problems. If the system involves uncertainty in the form of linguistic parameters and vague data, a fuzzy ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      A collaboration of five international conferences and two symposia devoted to mechanical engineering design research form the 2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      I am pleased to announce that with this issue the Journal of Mechanical Design moves to bi-monthly publication. Your continued support has provided us the opportunity to publish in 2004 ...

    • Guest Editorial 

      Gordon R. Pennock; Awards Chair (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      At the Mechanisms and Robotics Awards Luncheon, held on Wednesday September 29, 2004, Dr. John J. Uicker, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, received the ...

    • Editorial 

      J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      As the winter of my second year as Editor approaches, I find my planning horizon stretching from university quarters to publication years, two year impact factor windows, and three year Associate ...

    • Compliant Floating-Opposing-Arm (FOA) Centrifugal Clutch 

      Nathan B. Crane; Larry L. Howell; Brent L. Weight; Spencer P. Magleby (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This paper introduces the floating-opposing-arm (FOA) centrifugal clutch, presents a mathematical model for its analysis, and demonstrates the validity of a model to predict clutch performance ...