Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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An Interactive Rehabilitation Mechanism Design System for Kinematic and Kinetostatic Synthesis With Expandable Solution Space
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Compared to manual therapy, robot therapy can provide more intensive and accurate rehabilitation training. However, most current devices are built on bulky and complex multi-degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) mechanisms. Recently, ... -
Optimization-Based Disassembly Sequence Planning Under Uncertainty for Human–Robot Collaboration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Disassembly is an essential step for remanufacturing end-of-life (EOL) products. Optimization of disassembly sequences and the utilization of robotic technology could alleviate the labor-intensive nature of dismantling ... -
A Streamline-Guided Dehomogenization Approach for Structural Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)We present a novel dehomogenization approach for the efficient design of high-resolution load-bearing structures. The proposed approach builds upon a streamline-based parametrization of the design domain, using a set of ... -
A Scalable Digital Twin Framework Based on a Novel Adaptive Ensemble Surrogate Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The concept of digital twins is to have a digital model that can replicate the behavior of a physical asset in real time. However, using digital models to reflect the structural performance of physical assets usually faces ... -
Inconstant Empathy—Interpersonal Factors That Influence the Incompleteness of User Understanding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Empathy can help designers discover and fulfill users’ latent needs in design, which can lead to better design solutions. To achieve deep user understanding, designers utilize their ability to empathize with users. However, ... -
When Do Concurrent Design Facilities Need to Be Flexible? Understanding the Limits of Fit With Novel Problem Types
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Concurrent design facilities hold the promise of shorter design cycles with efficient cross-disciplinary integration. However, when an atypical design problem is encountered, the standard organization may be a poor fit to ... -
Incorporating Contextual Factors Into Engineering Design Processes: An Analysis of Novice Practice
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Incorporation of contextual factors into design processes is important for successful engineering design outcomes. Through document analysis and semi-structured interviews, we investigated the types of contextual factors ... -
Manufacturing Fixation in Design: Exploring the Effects of Manufacturing Fixation During Idea Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Capitalizing on any new or unfamiliar manufacturing technology requires an ability to look beyond the manufacturing limitations that have constrained one's design ideas in the past. For advanced manufacturing technology ... -
Shape Optimization for Temperature Regulation in Extrusion Dies Using Microstructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Plastic profile extrusion—a manufacturing process for continuous profiles with fixed cross section—requires a complex and iterative design process to prevent deformations and residual stresses in the final product. The ... -
Unit-Based Design of Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers for LPBF Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The structural design and additive manufacturing (AM) of cross-flow heat exchangers (HXs) are studied. A unit-based design framework is proposed to optimize the channel configuration in order to improve the heat exchange ... -
Iterative Uncertainty Calibration for Modeling Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes Using Statistical Moment-Based Metric
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has recently attracted attention due to its potential for batch/mass production of metal parts. This process, however, currently suffers from problems including low productivity, inconsistency ... -
Data-Driven Calibration of Multifidelity Multiscale Fracture Models Via Latent Map Gaussian Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Fracture modeling of metallic alloys with microscopic pores relies on multiscale damage simulations which typically ignore the manufacturing-induced spatial variabilities in porosity. This simplification is made because ... -
Beam-Based Lattice Topology Transition With Function Representation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A lattice structure is a porous periodic structure with unit cells organized according to a pattern. Lattice structures are lightweight parts that are commonly produced by additive manufacturing techniques. Lattice structures ... -
Special Issue: Design for Advanced Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Design and manufacturing are intimately coupled in the conceptualization and realization of products. Engineering design is regularly a key component of innovation and successful product development, yet promising designs ... -
Neural Network-Assisted Design: A Study of Multiscale Topology Optimization With Smoothly Graded Cellular Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Integration of machine learning (ML) with topology optimization (TO) has been attempted in many works. However, most works employ ML in a data-driven paradigm, which requires well-defined training data, and the generalization ... -
Design of Approximate Explicit Model Predictive Controller Using Parametric Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper introduces a new technique, called stateparameterized nonlinear programming control (spNLPC), for designing a feedback controller that can stabilize intrinsically unstable nonlinear dynamical systems using ... -
A Fourier Approach to Kinematic Acquisition of Geometric Constraints of Planar Motion for Practical Mechanism Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper studies the problem of geometric constraint acquisition from a given planar motion task using Fourier descriptor. In the previous work, we established a computational geometric framework for simultaneous type ... -
What Factors Impact Psychological Safety in Engineering Student Teams? A MixedMethod Longitudinal Investigation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Although teamwork is being integrated throughout engineering education because of the perceived benefits of teams, the construct of psychological safety has been largely ignored in engineering research. This omission is ... -
Assessment of Student Learning Through Reflection on Doing Using the Latent Dirichlet Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Can we provide evidencebased guidance to instructors to improve the delivery of the course based on students’ reflection on doing? Over three years at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, we have collected about 18,000 ... -
Finding Social Networks Among Online Reviewers for Customer Segmentation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Recently, online usergenerated data have emerged as a valuable source for industrial applications. In the consumer product area, many studies analyze online data and draw implications on product design. However, most of ...