Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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The Effect of Laser Cutting Heuristic Presentation Modality on Design Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/29/2023 )The goal of this work is to study the way student designers use heuristics to effectively design for laser-cut manufacturing methods. With the recent advent of academic makerspaces, digital fabrication tools like laser ... -
Enabling Insights by Long-Term Evaluation of Social Impact Indicators of Engineered Products for Global Development Using In Situ Sensors and Deep Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/28/2023 )Remotely measuring social impact indicators of products in developing countries can enable researchers and practitioners to make informed decisions relative to the design of products, improvement of products, or social ... -
Agent-Based Product-Social-Impact-Modeling: A Systematic Literature Review and Modeling Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/28/2023 )A key part of an engineer’s purpose is to create products and services that benefit society, or, in other words, to create products with a positive social impact. While engineers have many predictive models to aid in making ... -
Optimization Method of Design Parameters of Hypoid Gears With Low Sliding Ratio
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )To reduce the wear, an optimization method of hypoid gears with the objective of minimizing the pinion sliding ratio is proposed. First, the sliding ratio model of the hypoid gear is established on the basis of the spatial ... -
A Conformal Design Approach of TPMS-Based Porous Microchannels With Freeform Boundaries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/3/2023 1)Triply period minimal surface (TPMS)-based porous microchannels with freeform surfaces are extensively used in various applications, e.g., bone scaffold design and thermal management. However, TPMS-based porous microchannels ... -
Enumeration and Identification of Unique 3D Spatial Topologies of Interconnected Engineering Systems Using Spatial Graphs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/16/2023 )Systematic enumeration and identification of unique 3D spatial topologies (STs) of complex engineering systems (such as automotive cooling systems, electric power trains, satellites, and aero-engines) are essential to ... -
Similarity-Driven Topology Optimization for Statics and Crash via Energy Scaling Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/8/2023 1)Topology optimization (TO) is used in the initial design phase to optimize certain objective functions under given boundary conditions by finding suitable material distributions in a specified design domain. Currently ... -
Hierarchical Automatic Multilayer Power Plane Generation With Genetic Optimization and Multilayer Perceptron
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/25/2023 )We present an automatic multilayer power plane generation method to accelerate the design of printed circuit boards (PCB). In PCB design, while automatic solvers have been developed to predict important indicators such as ... -
Topology Optimization Design of Resonant Structures Based on Antiresonance Eigenfrequency Matching Informed by Harmonic Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )In this article, we present a design methodology for resonant structures exhibiting particular dynamic responses by combining an eigenfrequency matching approach and a harmonic analysis-informed eigenmode identification ... -
A Computational Model of Human Proficiency in Engineering Configuration Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )This work introduces the Proficient Simulated Annealing Design Agent Model (PSADA), a cognitively inspired, agent-based model of engineering configuration design. PSADA models different proficiency agents using move selection ... -
G-Puzzle: Infilling 3D Models With Reinforced G-Lattices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )G-Lattices (proposed by Armanfar and Gunpinar) are a group of novel periodic and strut-based lattice structures for additive manufacturing. It has been demonstrated that these structures have superior mechanical properties ... -
Sequential Sampling-Based Asymptotic Probability Estimation of High-Dimensional Rare Events
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )Accurate analysis of rare failure events with an affordable computational cost is often challenging in many engineering applications, particularly for problems with high-dimensional system inputs. The extremely low ... -
The Cognitive Costs of Design Tasks: Examining Cognitive Load Through Verbal and Physical Indicators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/16/2023 )Prior work has demonstrated that design tasks can be cognitively demanding, due to the inherent ambiguity and complexity of design problems. Few studies, however, have examined the evolution of cognitive load during the ... -
GAN-DUF: Hierarchical Deep Generative Models for Design Under Free-Form Geometric Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/31/2022)Deep generative models have demonstrated effectiveness in learning compact and expressive design representations that significantly improve geometric design optimization. However, these models do not consider the uncertainty ... -
G-Lattices: A Novel Lattice Structure and Its Generative Synthesis Under Additive Manufacturing Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/17/2022)This paper introduces a novel strut-based lattice structure that is called G-Lattices and a method for their generative synthesis. Given additive manufacturing (AM), user and geometrical constraints, G-Lattices can ... -
Additive Manufacturability Analysis of Multiscale Aperiodic Structures: A Statistical Mechanics Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/31/2022)This paper introduces heuristics based upon statistical mechanics to assist in additive manufacturability analysis of multiscale aperiodic structures. The heuristics associate structural properties at a statistical level ... -
Framework for the Evolution of Heuristics in Advanced Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/17/2022)This study works toward addressing a knowledge gap in understanding how heuristics are developed, retrieved, employed, and modified by designers. Having a better awareness of one’s own set of heuristics can be beneficial ... -
Holistic Optimal Design of Face-Milled Hypoid Gearsets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The aim of this paper is to present a holistic framework to design optimized spiral bevel and hypoid gearsets with accurate finite element simulations in the loop. Starting from the basic transmission data, we first size ... -
Design and Kinematics of Origami Inspired Non-Prismatic Foldable Truss Modules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Origami inspired deployable structures have received significant attention due to their exceptional kinematic and mechanical characteristics. Specifically, the cylindrical Kresling origami pattern has been extensively ... -
GCP-HOLO: Generating High-Order Linkage Graphs for Path Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)One degrees-of-freedom (1DOF) linkages are persistent in mechanical systems. However, designing linkages to follow a desired path, known as path synthesis, is challenging due to non-linearities, combinatorial nature, and ...