Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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In Memoriam: Douglass J. Wilde
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Douglass J. Wilde, Professor of Engineering Design at Stanford University, was known to many of us for his scientific and engineering contributions and for his simple and caring attitude toward everyone who encountered ... -
Design and Experimental Characterization of Hydraulically Actuated Revolute Joint Based on Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Design of fluidic actuators remain challenging in specific contexts such as the medical field, when solutions have for instance to be compatible with the stringent requirements of magnetic resonance imaging. In this article, ... -
Phrase Embedding and Clustering for Sub-Feature Extraction From Online Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Recently, online user-generated data have been used as an efficient resource for customer analysis. In the product design area, various methods for analyzing customer preference for product features have been suggested. ... -
Design, Analysis, and Test of a Novel Cylinder-Driven Mode Applied to Microgripper
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)How to enlarge the output displacement is a key issue in the research field of microgrippers. It is difficult to further enlarge the output displacement for the traditional displacement transmission mechanism (DTM). In ... -
Robust Topology Optimization of Graphene Platelets Reinforced Functionally Graded Materials Considering Hybrid Bounded Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An efficient scheme for the robust topology optimization considering hybrid bounded uncertainties (RTOHBU) is proposed for the graphene platelets (GPLs) reinforced functionally graded materials (FGMs). By introducing the ... -
Fluid-Thermal Topology Optimization of Gas Turbine Blade Internal Cooling Ducts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Topology optimization uses a variable permeability approach to manipulate flow geometries. Such a method has been employed in the current work to modify the geometric configuration of internal cooling ducts by manipulating ... -
OTL-PEM: An Optimization-Based Two-Layer Pointwise Ensemble of Surrogate Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The ensemble of surrogate models is increasingly implemented in practice for its more flexibility and resilience than individual models. The optimization-based two-layer pointwise ensemble of surrogate models (OTL-PEM) is ... -
A Computational Study of Design Team Robustness Through the Lens of Cognitive Style
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)High-performing design teams are characterized by their ability to maintain performance across a variety of problem types. This is often referred to as robustness, and is usually achieved through careful management of team ... -
Comparing the Impacts on Team Behaviors Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Process Management in Interdisciplinary Design Teams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This brief extends prior research by the authors on studying the impacts of interventions provided by either a human or an artificial intelligence (AI) process manager on team behaviors. Our earlier research found that a ... -
Research on Multiobjective Optimization Design of Meshing Performance and Dynamic Characteristics of Herringbone Gear Pair Under 3D Modification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Herringbone gear transmission system is widely used in high-speed overloaded fields such as ships. Tooth deformation and installation error, which can cause meshing impact, load mutation, and load uneven, will seriously ... -
A Phase Diagram-Based Stability Design Method for a Symmetrical Origami Waterbomb Base
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The symmetrical origami waterbomb (WB) base shows promising applications in engineering due to its considerable mechanical behaviors. As a common phenomenon in actual origami, the stability performance of the WB base has ... -
A Synergy-Based Approach for the Design of a Lower-Limb, Cable-Driven Exosuit
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A novel, synergy-based design for lower-limb, gait assistance exosuits is proposed in this paper. The general design philosophy is followed by the mathematical model that leads to the exosuit’s actuation system design from ... -
Approaches for Minimizing Joints in Single-Degree-of-Freedom Origami-Based Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Origami patterns have been used in the design of deployable arrays. In engineering applications, paper creases are often replaced with surrogate folds by providing a hinge-like function to enable motion. Overconstraint ... -
The Role of the Product Design and Manufacturing System Dyad in Efficient Personalized Production
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Product personalization will play a key role in the future of society by making these products available for everyone, everywhere. Personalized production requires the involvement of the customer in the design process. ... -
Estimation of Small Failure Probability Based on Adaptive Subset Simulation and Deep Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The critical problem of reliability design is how to obtain a more accurate failure probability with a smaller number of evaluations of actual complex and nonlinear performance function. To achieve this objective, an ... -
A Novel Classification Method to Random Samples for Efficient Reliability Sensitivity Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Reliability sensitivity analysis is important to measure how uncertainties influence the reliability of mechanical systems. This study aims to propose an efficient computational method for reliability sensitivity analysis ... -
Uncertainty Analysis and Sensitivity Estimation on an Artillery External Ballistic System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In the design of artillery external ballistics, sensitivity analysis can effectively quantify the influence of multi-source uncertain parameters on the dispersion of projectile landing points to improve the precise attack ... -
How Does Past Performance of Competitors Influence Designers’ Cognition, Behaviors, and Outcomes?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Existing literature on information sharing in contests has established that sharing contest-specific information influences contestant behaviors, and thereby, the outcomes of a contest. However, in the context of engineering ... -
A Novel Design of Torsion Spring-Connected Nonlinear Stiffness Actuator Based on Cam Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The nonlinear stiffness actuator (NSA) is a type of compliant joint with variable stiffness that is necessary for human–machine collaboration and has been the focus of extensive research attention. This academic work ... -
Design and Analysis of a Three-Fingered Deployable Metamorphic Robotic Grasper
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper presents the design and analysis of a three-fingered deployable metamorphic robotic grasper for manipulating large-scale unknown objects. This grasper is composed of three fingers and a single-mobility umbrella-shaped ...