Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions

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    • The Influence of Gear Design Parameters on Gear Tooth Damage Detection Sensitivity 

      Lin Liu; Graduate Research Assistant; Darryll J. Pines; Associate Fellow AIAA; AHS; ASME; IOP. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      This paper develops an analytical model to simulate the gear mesh contact for a spur gear pair with and without tooth damage. Three common gear tooth faults are simulated including pitting, ...

    • Making Process Visible: A Grammatical Approach to Managing Design Processes 

      Moon Jung Chung; Patrick Kwon; Brian T. Pentland (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      This paper presents a novel framework for managing design processes using a formal grammar as the theoretical foundation to represent, manipulate and execute design processes. The grammatical ...

    • About Hob Idle Distance in Gear Hobbing Operation 

      Stephen P. Radzevich (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      This study is focused on some features of geometry and kinematics of gear hobbing operation. The principal goal is to determine minimal hob idle distance required for complete generation of ...

    • Full Sliding Adhesive-Like Contact of V-Belts 

      Göran Gerbert; Francesco Sorge (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      Analysis of power transmission in a belt drive consisting of, e.g., two pulleys might be treated as a boundary value problem. Tight side tension FT, slack side tension FS and the wrap angle ...

    • Enumeration of 1-DOF Planetary Gear Train Graphs Based on Functional Constraints 

      Jose M. del Castillo (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      A procedure for the enumeration of the graphs of 1-dof planetary gear trains is presented. The planetary gear trains enumerated have a single input shaft and a single output shaft. These gear ...

    • Mathematical Models and Contact Simulations of Concave Beveloid Gears 

      Chia-Chang Liu; Chung-Biau Tsay (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      This study presents two mathematical models of concave beveloid gears ground by Mitome’s grinding method and by the novel grinding method proposed by the authors. Based on the developed ...

    • Kinematic Creep in a Continuously Variable Transmission: Traction Drive Mechanics for Cobots 

      R. Brent Gillespie; Carl A. Moore; Michael Peshkin; J. Edward Colgate (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      Two continuously variable transmissions are examined, one that relates a pair of linear speeds and another that relates a pair of angular speeds. These devices are elemental in the design of ...

    • An Accurate Full Car Ride Model Using Model Reducing Techniques 

      Chul Kim; Paul I. Ro (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      In this study, an approach to obtain an accurate yet simple model for full-vehicle ride analysis is proposed. The approach involves linearization of a full car MBD (multibody dynamics) model ...

    • Dynamic Response Analysis of Rotor-Bearing Systems With Cracked Shaft 

      M. A. Mohiuddin; Y. A. Khulief (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      A general dynamic model for a large-scale rotor-bearing system with a cracked shaft is introduced. A finite shaft element with a crack is developed using a consistent finite element approach. ...

    • On the Three Laws of Gearing 

      David B. Dooner (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      Three laws of gearing are presented in terms of a three link 1-dof spatial direct contact mechanism. The first law of gearing defines the instantaneous relationship between an infinitesimal ...

    • Design of One Stage Planetary Gear Train With Improved Conditions of Load Distribution and Reduced Transmission Errors 

      F. L. Litvin; E. Karedes; R. Handschuh; B. Hansen; D. Vecchiato; A. Demenego (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      The authors propose an approach for the design of one-stage planetary gear train with reduced transmission errors, localized bearing contact and improved conditions of distribution of load between ...

    • Geometric Insight Into the Dynamics of a Rigid Body Using the Spatial Triangle of Screws 

      Gordon R. Pennock; Patrick J. Meehan; Manufacturing Engineer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      Geometric relationships between the velocity screw and momentum screw are presented, and the dual angle between these two screws is shown to provide important insight into the kinetics of a ...

    • Integrated Real-Time Calibration of Electromagnetic Tracking of User Motions for Engineering Applications in Virtual Environments 

      Uma Jayaram; Roglenda Repp (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      A real-time integrated calibration system for virtual reality environments has been developed that enables accurate electromagnetic tracking of user motions. Electromagnetic tracking systems suffer ...

    • A New Technique Based on Loops to Investigate Displacement Isomorphism in Planetary Gear Trains 

      V. V. N. R. Prasad Raju Pathapati; A. C. Rao; Principal (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      The most important step in the structural synthesis of planetary gear trains (PGTs) requires the identification of isomorphism (rotational as well as displacement) between the graphs which represent ...

    • Solving the Geometric Design Problem of Spatial 3R Robot Manipulators Using Polynomial Homotopy Continuation 

      Eric Lee; Student Mem. ASME; Constantinos Mavroidis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      In this paper, the geometric design problem of serial-link robot manipulators with three revolute (R) joints is solved using a polynomial homotopy continuation method. Three spatial positions and ...

    • Initial Estimates in the Design of Central-Lever Steering Linkages 

      P. A. Simionescu; M. R. Smith (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      Parametric design charts are proposed for the central-lever steering linkage, generated for simplified reference configuration mechanisms, the geometry of which is defined by only four parameters. ...

    • Stabilization of Baumgarte’s Method Using the Runge-Kutta Approach 

      Shih-Tin Lin; Jiann-Nan Huang; Graduate Research Assistant (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      The dynamic equations of motion of the constrained multibody mechanical system are mixed differential-algebraic equations (DAE). The DAE systems cannot be solved using numerical integration methods ...

    • Kinematic Synthesis of a Six-Member Mechanism for Automotive Steering 

      S. Pramanik (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      A six-member mechanism has been synthesized to achieve five precision points of an automotive steering mechanism. The inner wheel can be rotated up to 61 degrees with fair accuracy. This result ...

    • Design and Control of a Compliant Parallel Manipulator 

      Thomas G. Sugar; Vijay Kumar (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      We describe a novel design for a compliant arm that can be mounted on a mobile robot. Because the arm is compliant, a mobile robot can manipulate or interact with objects that are not ...

    • Decomposition-Based Assembly Synthesis Based on Structural Considerations 

      F. A. Yetis; Graduate Student Research Assistant; K. Saitou (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)
      This paper presents a method for decomposition of structural products in order to provide the product designer with choices for feasible assemblies. The synthesis of assemblies is done by ...