Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • Design of Machine Elements, Eighth Edition 

      M. F. Spotts; David O. Kazmer; T. E. Shoup; L. E. Hornberger (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      Design of Machine Elements, Eighth Edition M. F. Spotts, T. E. Shoup, L. E. Hornberger, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004 (ISBN 0-13-048989-1).

    • A GA Based Configuration Design Optimization Method 

      Pierre M. Grignon; Georges M. Fadel (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This work presents a methodology for optimizing multiple system level assembly characteristics of complex mechanical assemblies by placement of their components. It addresses any component shape ...

    • Exploring the Effectiveness of Various Patterns in an Extended Pattern Search Layout Algorithm 

      Su Yin; Jonathan Cagan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      Automated synthesis of product layout has the potential of substantially reducing design cycle time while allowing for quick check of interference, clearance, scale and fit prior to the building ...

    • From Mechanisms and Robotics to Protein Conformation and Drug Design 

      Kazem Kazerounian (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      The systematic study of kinematics can be traced to the writings of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Persians as far back as 500 B.C. For many centuries kinematics (along with geometry) ...

    • Design of a Lightweight Hyper-Redundant Deployable Binary Manipulator 

      Vivek A. Sujan; Steven Dubowsky (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This paper presents the design of a new lightweight, hyper-redundant, deployable Binary Robotic Articulated Intelligent Device (BRAID), for space robotic systems. The BRAID is intended to meet ...

    • On the Basis Screws and Screw Systems of Point-Line and Line Displacements 

      Yi Zhang; Research Assistant; Kwun-Lon Ting (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This paper presents a method to derive and characterize the basis screws and the screw systems associated with a general point-line displacement. The transformation of a point-line between ...

    • An Agent Based Optimization Approach to Manufacturing Process Planning 

      Saurabh Deshpande; Jonathan Cagan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      Many optimization problems, such as manufacturing process planning optimization, are difficult problems due to the large number of potential configurations (process sequences) and associated (process) ...

    • Effects of Over-Torque on Stress Relief in Conical Threaded Connections 

      S. Baragetti; A. Terranova (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      The analysis of the stress state induced by the make-up torque of tapered threaded connections is very important for the improvement of both the static and the fatigue resistance of such ...

    • Singularity Loci of a Special Class of Spherical 3-DOF Parallel Mechanisms With Prismatic Actuators 

      Jing Wang; Clément M. Gosselin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      In this paper, the singularity loci of a special class of spherical 3-DOF parallel manipulators with prismatic actuators are studied. Concise analytical expressions describing the singularity loci ...

    • Suspension Design for Linear Toe Curves: A Case Study in Mechanism Synthesis 

      Madhusudan Raghavan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      We present an algorithm for synthesizing the attachment point locations of the tie-rod of an automotive suspension, to achieve linear toe change characteristics with jounce and rebound of the ...

    • Kinematic Calibration for Redundantly Actuated Parallel Mechanisms 

      Jay il Jeong; Dongsoo Kang; Young Man Cho; Jongwon Kim (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      We present a new kinematic calibration algorithm for redundantly actuated parallel mechanisms, and illustrate the algorithm with a case study of a planar seven-element 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) ...

    • An Approach to the Determination of Spur Gear Tooth Root Fillet 

      V. B. Math; Lecturer; Satish Chand; Dean(Academic Affairs); MNREC (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      The purpose of this paper is to present an approach for the determination of geometry of spur gear tooth root fillet. An equation is developed to determine the point of tangency of involute ...

    • A Boundary-Blending Method for the Parametrization of 2D Surfaces With Highly Irregular Boundaries 

      Jui-Jen Chuang; Daniel C. H. Yang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      In this paper three methods are used to generate boundary-conformed parametrization of 2D surfaces. They include two conventional approaches, the Coons method and the Laplace method, and a new ...

    • Application of Workspace Generation Techniques to Determine the Unconstrained Motion of Parallel Manipulators 

      Philip Voglewede; Imme Ebert-Uphoff (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      Due to clearances in their passive joints, parallel manipulators always exhibit some unconstrained motion at the end effector. The amount of unconstrained motion depends on the pose of the ...

    • On the Determination of Joint Reactions in Multibody Mechanisms 

      Wojciech Blajer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      In this paper some existing codes for the determination of joint reactions in multibody mechanisms are first reviewed. The codes relate to the DAE (differential-algebraic equation) dynamics ...

    • Synthesis and Analysis of a Group of 3-Degree-of-Freedom Partially Decoupled Parallel Manipulators 

      Qiong Jin; Ting-Li Yang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      The kinematics decoupling for parallel manipulators is studied in this paper. Based on the topological structure characteristics of parallel mechanisms, the internal relationship between kinematics ...

    • Geometric Design of Cylindric PRS Serial Chains 

      Hai-Jun Su; Charles W. Wampler; J. Michael McCarthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This paper considers the design of cylindric PRS serial chains. This five degree-of-freedom robot can be designed to reach an arbitrary set of eight spatial positions. However, it is often ...

    • Workspace Optimization of 3-Legged UPU and UPS Parallel Platforms With Joint Constraints 

      Mircea Badescu; Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar; Constantinos Mavroidis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      In this paper the workspace optimization of 3-legged translational UPU and orientational UPS parallel platforms under joint constraints is performed. The workspace of both platforms is parametrized ...

    • RedesignIT—A Model-Based Tool for Managing Design Changes 

      Gabriel Aguirre Ollinger; Thomas F. Stahovich (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      RedesignIT is a computer program that uses model-based reasoning to generate and evaluate proposals of redesign plans for engineered devices. These proposals describe how the design parameters ...

    • IN MEMORIAM: Dr. An Tzu Yang (1923–2003) 

      Gordon R. Pennock (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      When applying for graduate school, I was contacted by Prof. A. T. Yang at UC Davis, but wound up at Stanford only to find decades later that my research is dominated by the mathematics of ...