Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Attribute-Sentiment-Guided Summarization of User Opinions From Online Reviews
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Eliciting informative user opinions from online reviews is a key success factor for innovative product design and development. The unstructured, noisy, and verbose nature of user reviews, however, often complicate large-scale ... -
Deep Learning Methods of Cross-Modal Tasks for Conceptual Design of Product Shapes: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Conceptual design is the foundational stage of a design process that translates ill-defined design problems into low-fidelity design concepts and prototypes through design search, creation, and integration. In this stage, ... -
Special Issue: Emerging Technologies and Methods for Early-Stage Product Design and Development
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The early-stage product design and development (PDD) process fundamentally involves the processing, synthesis, and communication of a large amount of information to make a series of key decisions on design exploration and ... -
The Impact of Gender on Individual Perceptions and Team Psychological Safety in Engineering Design Teams in Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Improving team interactions in engineering to model gender inclusivity has been at the forefront of many initiatives in both academia and industry. However, there has been limited evidence on the impact of gender-diverse ... -
Evaluation of Students’ Learning Through Reflection on Doing Based on Sentiment Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this paper, we address the following question: How can instructors leverage assessment instruments used to process information gleaned from design, build, and test courses to simultaneously improve student outcomes and ... -
Trade-Off Characterization Between Social and Environmental Impacts Using Agent-Based Product Adoption Models and Life Cycle Assessment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Meeting the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals efficiently requires designers and engineers to solve multi-objective optimization problems involving trade-offs between social, environmental, and economical ... -
An Algorithm for Multi-Objective Efficient Parametric Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Parametric optimization is the process of solving an optimization problem as a function of currently unknown or changing variables known as parameters. Parametric optimization methods have been shown to benefit engineering ... -
Synthetic Fault Mode Generation for Resilience Analysis and Failure Mechanism Discovery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Traditional risk-based design processes seek to mitigate operational hazards by manually identifying possible faults and devising corresponding mitigation strategies—a tedious process which critically relies on the designer’s ... -
Degradation-Aware Ensemble of Diverse Predictors for Remaining Useful Life Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A traditional ensemble approach to predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of equipment and other assets has been constructing data-driven and model-based ensembles using identical predictors. This ensemble approach may ... -
Generative Design for Resilience of Interdependent Network Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Interconnected complex systems usually undergo disruptions due to internal uncertainties and external negative impacts such as those caused by harsh operating environments or regional natural disaster events. To maintain ... -
t-METASET: Task-Aware Acquisition of Metamaterial Datasets Through Diversity-Based Active Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Inspired by the recent achievements of machine learning in diverse domains, data-driven metamaterials design has emerged as a compelling paradigm that can unlock the potential of multiscale architectures. The model-centric ... -
Bi-Objective Surrogate Feasibility Robust Design Optimization Utilizing Expected Non-Dominated Improvement With Relaxation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Engineering design optimization problems often have two competing objectives as well as uncertainty. For these problems, quite often there is interest in obtaining feasibly robust optimum solutions. Feasibly robust here ... -
Descriptor Aided Bayesian Optimization for Many-Level Qualitative Variables With Materials Design Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Engineering design often involves qualitative and quantitative design variables, which requires systematic methods for the exploration of these mixed-variable design spaces. Expensive simulation techniques, such as those ... -
Objects of Collaboration: Roles and Sequences of Objects in Spanning Knowledge Group Boundaries in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Spanning knowledge group boundaries is both a source of and barrier to design performance and innovation. Objects—from prototypes to kanban boards—are frequently used in cross-functional design practice, but their associated ... -
Learning to Design Without Prior Data: Discovering Generalizable Design Strategies Using Deep Learning and Tree Search
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that can design on its own has been a goal since the 1980s. Recently, deep learning has shown the ability to learn from large-scale data, enabling significant advances in ... -
The Evolution and Impact of Human Confidence in Artificial Intelligence and in Themselves on AI-Assisted Decision-Making in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Decision-making assistance by artificial intelligence (AI) during design is only effective when human designers properly utilize the AI input. However, designers often misjudge the AI’s and/or their own ability, leading ... -
Systematic Review and Classification of the Engineering for Global Development Literature Based on Design Tools and Methods for Social Impact Consideration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)While many tools and methodologies for assessing social impact exist and are used in the social science and global development fields, there is a lack of standard methods for considering the broader social impact of products ... -
Optimal Design of a Kinematically Redundant Planar Parallel Mechanism Based on Error Sensitivity and Workspace
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this paper, the dimensional optimization of a (2PRR)-R + 2RRR (P and R represent the prismatic and revolute joint, respectively, and the underline indicates that the joint is the actuator) kinematically redundant parallel ... -
Type Synthesis of Modular Polyhedral Mechanisms Based on the Generalized Mechanism Models of Regular Polyhedron
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)An integrated type synthesis method for polyhedral mechanisms based on polyhedron is proposed. The properties of the polyhedron are considered and the corresponding generalized mechanism is built based on strategies that ... -
Positioning Accuracy Reliability Analysis of Industrial Robots Considering Epistemic Uncertainty and Correlation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Uncertainties widely existing in modeling parameters, such as link length, joint clearance, and rotation angle, have the serious impact on the motion performance of industrial robots. In this study, a reliability analysis ...