Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Compliance Realization With Planar Serial Mechanisms Having Fixed Link Lengths
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this article, the synthesis of any specified planar compliance with a serial elastic mechanism having previously determined link lengths is addressed. For a general n-joint serial mechanism, easily assessed necessary ... -
Reliability-Informed Economic and Energy Evaluation for Bi-Level Design for Remanufacturing: A Case Study of Transmission and Hydraulic Manifold
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Design for remanufacturing (DfRem) is one attractive strategy that encourages the reuse of a product and extends the product's life cycle. Traditional design processes often only consider product reliability at an early ... -
A Non-Parametric Histogram Interpolation Method for Design Space Exploration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A novel algorithm is presented to aid designers during the conceptual design phase of a new engineering product by rapidly assessing new areas of the design space. The algorithm presented here develops a polynomial chaos-based ... -
Variational Level Set Method for Topology Optimization of Origami Fold Patterns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)With specific fold patterns, a 2D flat origami can be converted into a complex 3D structure under an external driving force. Origami inspires the engineering design of many self-assembled and re-configurable devices. This ... -
Geometric Error Propagation Model-Based Accuracy Synthesis and Its Application to a 1T2R Parallel Manipulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)To meet the increasing requirements for precision hybrid machine tools, this paper presents a geometric error propagation model-based accuracy synthesis method for parallel manipulators (PMs) with one translational and two ... -
Configuration Design and Screening of Multi-Mode Double-Planetary-Gears Hybrid Powertrains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Hybrid powertrains with planetary gearset (PG) have been widely used. However, there are few types of powertrains in use, and more powertrains have not been found. Based on the principle of organic chemistry, a design and ... -
Design for Inspectability: A Framework to Increase Inspectability of Additive Manufacturing Parts for Pulse-Echo Ultrasonic Inspection Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Additive manufacturing (AM) is used to produce load-bearing, safety-critical components in industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical devices. Designers can create AM components with complex internal features, ... -
ActivationNet: Representation Learning to Predict Contact Quality of Interacting 3D Surfaces in Engineering Designs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Engineering simulations for analysis of structural and fluid systems require information of contacts between various 3D surfaces of the geometry to accurately model the physics between them. In machine learning applications, ... -
Deep Generative Tread Pattern Design Framework for Efficient Conceptual Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Tire tread patterns have played an important role in the automotive industry because they directly affect automobile performances. The conventional tread pattern development process has successfully produced and manufactured ... -
Building a Lightweight Digital Twin of a Crane Boom for Structural Safety Monitoring Based on a Multifidelity Surrogate Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Undetected fatigue and overload damages at the key locations of the crane boom are among the biggest threats in construction, leading to structural failure. Thus, the structural health of the crane boom should be monitored ... -
Design of Deployable Mechanisms Based on Wren Parallel Mechanism Units
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper presents a series of deployable mechanisms based on n-UU (universal joint) Wren parallel mechanism (PM) units, which undergo one degree-of-freedom (DOF) Borel–Bricard motion. First, the PM unit is developed into ... -
Algebraic Method for Exact Synthesis of One-Degree-of-Freedom Linkages With Arbitrarily Prescribed Constant Velocity Ratios
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper addresses the synthesis of one degree-of-freedom (1DOF) linkages that can exactly transmit angular motion between coplanar axes (i.e., parallel axes or intersectant axes) with arbitrarily prescribed constant ... -
Impact of Timing in the Design Process on Students’ Application of Design for Additive Manufacturing Heuristics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The goal of this work is to study the way student designers use design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) rules or heuristics. It can be challenging for novice designers to create successful designs for additive manufacturing ... -
Flexibility “of” Versus “in” Systems: A Complementary Strategy for Designing Fleet-Based Systems for Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Complex systems must sustain value over extended lifetimes, often in the face of significant uncertainty. Flexibility “in” systems have been shown to be highly valuable for large monolithic systems (LMS). However, other ... -
A Novel Mathematical Formulation for Density-Based Topology Optimization Method Considering Multi-Axis Machining Constraint
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a novel density-based method for structural design considering restrictions of multi-axis machining processes. A new mathematical formulation based on Heaviside function is presented to transform the ... -
An Integrated Surrogate Modeling Method for Fusing Noisy and Noise-Free Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Many datasets in engineering applications are heterogeneous mixtures of noise-free data, noisy data with known noise variances, and noisy data with unknown noise variances. This article proposes a data fusion method called ... -
Discussion: “Bayesian Optimal Design of Experiments for Inferring the Statistical Expectation of Expensive Black-Box Functions” (Pandita, P., Bilionis, I., and Panchal, J., 2019, ASME J. Mech. Des., 141(10), p. 101404)
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Design and Analysis of a Compact Piezo-Actuated Microgripper With a Large Amplification Ratio
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article presents a piezo-actuated microgripper characterized by large amplification ratio and compact structure size. The microgripper is actuated by a piezo-stack actuator that is integrated with a two-stage displacement ... -
Rapid Response! Investigating the Effects of Problem Definition on the Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Solutions for COVID-19
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Designers from around the world have proposed numerous engineering design solutions for problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of which leverage the rapid prototyping and manufacturing capabilities of additive ... -
Novel Design of a Rotation Center Auto-Matched Ankle Rehabilitation Exoskeleton With Decoupled Control Capacity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article presents a novel ankle rehabilitation exoskeleton for poststroke patients, the rotational center of which can automatically conform to each individual user’s ankle complex, once they wear the exoskeleton