Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Development of Technical Creativity Featuring Modified TRIZ-AM Inventive Principle to Support Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) processing was introduced to fully utilize the design freedom provided by additive manufacturing (AM). Consequently, appropriate design methodologies have become essential for ... -
A Reliability-Based Formulation for Simulation-Based Control Co-Design Using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Combined plant and control design (control co-design (CCD)) methods are often used during product development to address the synergistic coupling between the plant and control parts of a dynamic system. Recently, a few ... -
Stochastic Crashworthiness Optimization Accounting for Simulation Noise
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Finite element-based crashworthiness optimization is extensively used to improve the safety of motor vehicles. However, the responses of crash simulations are characterized by a high level of numerical noise, which can ... -
A Graph Partitioning Technique to Optimize the Physical Integration of Functional Requirements for Axiomatic Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)According to the concept of physical integration as understood in axiomatic design, design parameters of a product should be integrated into a single physical part or a few parts with the aim of reducing the information ... -
Can Induced Gratitude Improve Creative Performance on Repurposing Tasks?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Urgent societal problems, including climate change, require innovation and can benefit from interdisciplinary solutions. A small body of research has demonstrated the potential of positive emotions (e.g., gratitude, awe) ... -
Corrugated Diaphragm Actuator for Soft Robotic Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Soft robotics is projected to have a significant impact on healthcare, industry, and the military to deliver assistance in rehabilitation, daily living activities, repetitive motion tasks, and human performance augmentation. ... -
A Large Range Compliant Nano-Manipulator Supporting Electron Beam Lithography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Electron beam lithography (EBL) is an important lithographic process of scanning a focused electron beam (e-beam) to direct write a custom pattern with nanometric accuracy. Due to the very limited field of the focused ... -
Design of a Tensegrity Servo-Actuated Structure for Civil Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The use of glass elements in civil engineering is spreading in the last years beyond merely esthetic functions for their ease of installation and production. Nonetheless, the structural performance of such materials in any ... -
Development and Validation of an End-Effector for Mitigation of Collisions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In robotics, the risk of collisions is present both in industrial applications and in remote handling. If a collision occurs, the impact may damage both the robot and external equipment, which may result in successive ... -
Optimal Modular Remanufactured Product Configuration and Harvesting Planning for End-of-Life Products
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Remanufacturing is a representative product recovery strategy that can improve economic profitability and sustainability, but many companies are struggling because of the lack of understanding of the market and the design ... -
Co-Evolution of Communication and System Performance in Engineering Systems Design: A Stochastic Network-Behavior Dynamics Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Engineering systems design is a dynamic socio-technical process where the social factors, such as interdisciplinary interactions, and technical factors, such as design interdependence and the design state, co-evolve. ... -
Design of Phononic Bandgap Metamaterials Based on Gaussian Mixture Beta Variational Autoencoder and Iterative Model Updating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Phononic bandgap metamaterials, which consist of periodic cellular structures, are capable of absorbing energy within a certain frequency range. Designing metamaterials that trap waves across a wide wave frequency range ... -
A Subspace-Inclusive Sampling Method for the Computational Design of Compositionally Graded Alloys
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Compositionally graded alloys, a subclass of functionally graded materials (FGMs), utilize localized variations in composition with a single metal part to achieve higher performance than traditional single material parts. ... -
Efficient Reliability-Based Mission Planning of Off-Road Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using an Outcrossing Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Reliability-based mission planning of off-road autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) aims to identify an optimal path under uncertain and deformable terrain environment, while satisfying specific mission mobility reliability ... -
High-Dimensional Reliability Method Accounting for Important and Unimportant Input Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Reliability analysis is a core element in engineering design and can be performed with physical models (limit-state functions). Reliability analysis becomes computationally expensive when the dimensionality of input random ... -
Recovering Missing Component Dependence for System Reliability Prediction via Synergy Between Physics and Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Predicting system reliability is often a core task in systems design. System reliability depends on component reliability and dependence of components. Component reliability can be predicted with a physics-based approach ... -
Do Human and Computational Evaluations of Similarity Align? An Empirical Study of Product Function
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Function drives many early design considerations in product development, highlighting the importance of finding functionally similar examples if searching for sources of inspiration or evaluating designs against existing ... -
Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Designers routinely create informal “thinking” sketches to explore a design space, “talking” sketches to communicate design ideas during the early phases of the design process, and “learning” prototypes to test potential ... -
If a Picture is Worth 1000 Words, Is a Word Worth 1000 Features for Design Metric Estimation?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A picture is worth a thousand words, and in design metric estimation, a word may be worth a thousand features. Pictures are awarded this worth because they can encode a plethora of information. When evaluating designs, we ... -
So You Think Your System Is Complex?: Why and How Existing Complexity Measures Rarely Agree
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In an increasingly interconnected &