Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Predictive and Generative Design Approach for Three-Dimensional Mesh Shapes Using Target-Embedding Variational Autoencoder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this paper, we present a predictive and generative design approach for supporting the conceptual design of product shapes in 3D meshes. We develop a target-embedding variational autoencoder (TEVAE) neural network ... -
Zero-Free-Length Elastic System for Gravity Compensation of Parallel Mechanisms With Delta and Delta-Like Architectures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Passive gravity compensation can effectively reduce the load of actuators, but existing methods are commonly complex in terms of mechanisms and elastic systems with zero-free-length (ZFL) property. A compensation strategy ... -
What Is the Relationship Between Psychological Safety and Team Productivity and Effectiveness During Concept Development? An Exploration in Engineering Design Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)While psychological safety is a consistent, generalizable, and multilevel predictor of outcomes in team performance across fields that can positively impact the creative process, there have been limited investigations of ... -
An Adaptive Two-Stage Kriging-Based Infilling Strategy for Efficient Multi-Objective Global Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Most practical multi-objective optimization problems are often characterized by two or more expensive and conflicting objectives, which require time-consuming simulations. Commonly used algorithms construct a surrogate ... -
AK-HMC-IS: A Novel Importance Sampling Method for Efficient Reliability Analysis Based on Active Kriging and Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Sampling methods are powerful tools for structural reliability analysis with complex failure domains due to their stability and accuracy. One of the most frequently used sampling methods is the importance sampling (IS) ... -
Understanding Resilience Optimization Architectures: Alignment and Coupling in Multilevel Decomposition Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Including resilience in an overall systems optimization process is challenging because the space of hazard-mitigating features is complex, involving both inherent and active prevention and recovery measures. Many resilience ... -
A Sequential Sampling Approach for Multi-Fidelity Surrogate Modeling-Based Robust Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Multi-fidelity surrogate modeling has been extensively used in engineering design to achieve a balance between computational efficiency and prediction accuracy. Sequential sampling strategies have been investigated to ... -
A New Validation Metric for Models With Correlated Responses Using Limited Experimental and Simulation Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Model validation is the process of determining the degree to which a model is an accurate representation of the real object. Most of the existing model verification metrics rely on massive data, which are expensive to ... -
Structural Topology Optimization of Reactionless Four-Bar Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Classical dynamic balancing techniques do not consider the linkage elastic behavior. For mechanism or robot design purpose, taking into account the flexibility of the multibody system is of utmost importance, in order to ... -
Efficient Design Guidelines for Innovative Aerial Robot Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The field of aerial robotics has advanced rapidly, but the design knowledge has not yet been codified into reusable design guidelines. Design guidelines have been developed for many mechanical design areas to advance the ... -
Improve Syntax Correctness and Breadth of Design Space Exploration in Functional Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Functional analysis aims to decompose the main functions of a product, which can be large and complex, into more manageable subfunctions. Recently, interest in explicitly considering users during functional modeling has ... -
A Test for Product Design Features Perceived as Sustainable to Drive Online Purchasing Decisions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Designers are challenged to create sustainable products that succeed in the marketplace, often relying on life cycle analyses to identify engineered sustainable features while neglecting perceived-as-sustainable (PAS) ... -
Three-Dimensional Ship Hull Encoding and Optimization via Deep Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Design and optimization of hull shapes for optimal hydrodynamic performance have been a major challenge for naval architectures. Deep learning bears the promise of comprehensive geometric representation and new design ... -
Sustainable Creativity: Overcoming the Challenge of Scale When Repurposing Wind-Turbine Blades
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)With the growing adoption of wind-energy technology to help address climate change, we must now also consider the disposition of retired wind-turbine blades, which are not easily recycled. This pressing environmental problem ... -
Announcing the Journal of Mechanical Design 2021 Editors’ Choice Paper Awards and Honorable Mention
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)We are pleased to announce the two (2) winners for the Journal of Mechanical Design 2021 Editors’ Choice Paper Award.In the Category of Design Methods:Khalil Al Handawi, Petter Andersson, Massimo Panarotto, Ola Isaksson, ... -
Design of Unmanned Cable Shovel Based on Multiobjective Co-Design Optimization of Structural and Control Parameters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In autonomous excavation, design and optimization of the unmanned cable shovels (UCS) are important issues in the full life cycle of the equipment. However, the design of physical structure and control system of the UCS ... -
Artificial Intelligence Design for Ship Structures: A Variant Multiple-Input Neural Network-Based Ship Resistance Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this work, we have developed a data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) solution to assist the ship hull design process. Specifically, we have developed and implemented an AI-based multiple-input neural network model ... -
Bias-Learning-Based Model Predictive Controller Design for Reliable Path Tracking of Autonomous Vehicles Under Model and Environmental Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Path tracking error control is an essential functionality in the development of autonomous vehicles to follow a planned trajectory. Significant path tracking errors could lead to a collision or even out of the control of ... -
Reinforcement Learning-Based Sequential Batch-Sampling for Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Engineering problems that are modeled using sophisticated mathematical methods or are characterized by expensive-to-conduct tests or experiments are encumbered with limited budget or finite computational resources. Moreover, ... -
Probabilistic Digital Twin for Additive Manufacturing Process Design and Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a detailed methodology for constructing an additive manufacturing (AM) digital twin for the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. An important aspect of the proposed digital twin is the incorporation ...