Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Thinking Beyond the Default User: The Impact of Gender, Stereotypes, and Modality on Interpretation of User Needs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Throughout the mechanical design process, designers, the majority of whom are men, often fail to consider the needs of women, resulting in consequences ranging from inconvenience to increased risk of serious injury or ... -
A Functional Perspective on the Emergence of Dominant Designs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Models of long-term product innovation depict the trajectory of products through an evolutionary selection metaphor in which product designs converge toward a dominant design. The product innovation literature favors ... -
Identification of Design Strategies and Their Effects on Performance Outcomes in Pair Parameter Design Tasks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Understanding design processes and behaviors is important for building more effective design outcomes. During design tasks, teams exhibit sequences of actions that form strategies. This article investigates patterns of ... -
Modeling Stiffness and Stress in Serpentine Flexures for Use in a Compliant Bone Plate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Serpentine flexures offer several advantages for use in linear motion mechanisms, including distributed compliance to reduce stress and increase range of motion. In this work, we develop an analytical model for predicting ... -
An Integrated Kinematic Mapping and Fourier Method to Design Spherical Coupled Serial Chain Mechanisms for Single-Joint Rehabilitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Robotic devices are capable of reducing the physical burden on rehabilitation therapists and providing training programs of good repeatability, high efficiency, and high precision. When designing the kinematic structure ... -
A GPU-Based Parallel Region Classification Method for Continuous Constraint Satisfaction Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Continuous constraint satisfaction is prevalent in many science and engineering fields. When solving continuous constraint satisfaction problems, it is more advantageous for practitioners to derive all feasible regions ... -
Open-Loop Control Co-Design of Semisubmersible Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Using Linear Parameter-Varying Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper discusses a framework to design elements of the plant and control systems for floating offshore wind turbines in an integrated manner using linear parameter-varying models. Multiple linearized models derived ... -
Constraining the Feasible Design Space in Bayesian Optimization With User Feedback
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper develops a method to integrate user knowledge into the optimization process by simultaneously modelling feasible design space and optimizing an objective function. In engineering, feasible design space is a ... -
On the Advantages of Searching Infeasible Regions in Constrained Evolutionary-Based Multi-Objective Engineering Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Solving a multiple-criteria optimization problem with severe constraints remains a significant issue in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. The problem primarily stems from the need for a suitable constraint handling ... -
2023 Reviewers With Distinction Award
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The Journal of Mechanical Design Reviewers with Distinction Award is given to reviewers who have made a meritorious contribution to the journal in terms of the number, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed ... -
Effects of Product Personalization: Considering Personalizability in the Product Architecture of Modular Product Families
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The modularity of a product architecture with standard, variant, and optional modules can be measured by the characteristics of commonality and combinability. Positive and negative effects of a more communal or more ... -
Using AI-Enabled Divergence and Convergence Patterns as a Quantitative Artifact in Design Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Design education has traditionally relied heavily on physical integration as it involves a lot of hands-on work, group critiques, and collaborative projects, but the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way ... -
Designing Together: Exploring Collaborative Dynamics of Multi-Objective Design Problems in Virtual Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The pace of technological advancements has been rapidly increasing in recent years, with the advent of artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, and other emerging technologies fundamentally changing the way human ... -
Analysis of Collaborative Assembly in Multi-User Computer-Aided Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Cloud-based multi-user computer-aided design (MUCAD) tools have the potential to revolutionize design team collaboration. Previous research focusing on parametric part modeling suggests that teams collaborating through ... -
A Study on Generative Design Reasoning and Students' Divergent and Convergent Thinking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Computer-aided design (CAD) is a standard design tool used in engineering practice and by students. CAD has become increasingly analytic and inventive in incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to design, ... -
If You Build It, Will They Understand? Considerations for Creating Shared Understanding Through Design Artifacts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Design representations play a pivotal role in the design process. In particular, design representations enable the formation of a shared understanding between team members, enhancing team performance. This paper explores ... -
The Influence of Digital Sketching Tools on Concept Novelty and Evolution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Digital tools for sketching, such as tablets, have become popular for streamlining design work and keeping a large quantity of sketches in one place. However, their impact on design creativity, novelty, and concept evolution ... -
Requirements, Objectives, Both, or Neither: How to Formulate Complex Design Problems for Innovation Contests
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Technical organizations increasingly rely on innovation contests to find novel ideas for designing complex systems. These activities involve outsiders in the early stages of the design process, leading to ground-breaking ... -
Comparing and Evaluating Human and Computationally Derived Representations of Non-Semantic Design Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Design artifacts provide a mechanism for illustrating design information and concepts, but their effectiveness relies on alignment across design agents in what these artifacts represent. This work investigates the agreement ... -
An Approach for Predicting Social, Environmental, and Economic Product Impacts and Characterizing the Associated Sustainability Tradespace in Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)There is a growing demand for sustainable products and systems. Sustainability encompasses environmental, social, and economic aspects, often referred to as the three pillars of sustainability. To make more sustainable ...