Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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2021 Reviewers With Distinction Award
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The Journal of Mechanical Design Reviewers with Distinction Award is given to reviewers who have made a meritorious contribution to the journal in terms of the number, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed ... -
Crossing Cultural Borders: A Case Study of Conceptual Design Outcomes of U.S. and Moroccan Student Samples
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)There has been a plethora of design theory and methodology (DTM) research conducted to answer important questions centered around how ideas are developed and translated into successful products. Understanding this is vital ... -
Exploring the Effectiveness of Providing Structured Design-for-the-Environment Strategies During Conceptual Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The fuzzy front end of engineering design can present a difficult challenge, and as such, recent engineering design research has focused on guiding and influencing the way a designer ideates. Early ideation can be especially ... -
BIKED: A Dataset for Computational Bicycle Design With Machine Learning Benchmarks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, we present “BIKED,” a dataset composed of 4500 individually designed bicycle models sourced from hundreds of designers. We expect BIKED to enable a variety of data-driven design applications for bicycles and ... -
srMO-BO-3GP: A Sequential Regularized Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization for Constrained Design Applications Using an Uncertain Pareto Classifier
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Bayesian optimization (BO) is an efficient and flexible global optimization framework that is applicable to a very wide range of engineering applications. To leverage the capability of the classical BO, many extensions, ... -
Multiobjective Monotonicity Analysis: Pareto Set Dependency and Trade-Offs Causality in Configuration Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Multiobjective design optimization studies typically derive Pareto sets or use a scalar substitute function to capture design trade-offs, leaving it up to the designer’s intuition to use this information for design refinements ... -
Building a Trustworthy Product-Level Shape-Performance Integrated Digital Twin With Multifidelity Surrogate Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Digital twin has the potential for increasing production, achieving real-time monitor, and realizing predictive maintenance by establishing a real-time high-fidelity mapping between the physical entity and its digital ... -
Accessibility Versus Feasibility: Optimizing Function Allocation for Accommodation of Heterogeneous Populations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Human beings are physically and cognitively variable, leading to a wide array of potential system use cases. To design safe and effective systems for highly heterogeneous populations, engineers must cater to this variability ... -
Validating Perceived Sustainable Design Features Using a Novel Collage Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Designers are challenged to create sustainable products that resonate with customers, often focusing on engineered sustainability while neglecting perceived sustainability. We previously proposed a method for extracting ... -
The Dark Side of Modularity: How Decomposing Problems Can Increase System Complexity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Decomposition is a dominant design strategy because it enables complex problems to be broken up into loosely coupled modules that are easier to manage and can be designed in parallel. However, contrary to widely held ... -
Assessing Global Needs When Identifying Potential Engineering for Global Development Projects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)With limited time and resources available to carry out Engineering for Global Development (EGD) projects, it can be difficult to know where those resources should be allocated to have greater potential for meaningful impact. ... -
Analysis of Dynamic Changes in Customer Sentiment on Product Features After the Outbreak of COVID-19 Based on Online Reviews
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Sudden changes in life and work patterns due to COVID-19 have affected customer requirements for the products. Under these circumstances, companies can achieve high profitability and customer satisfaction when they can ... -
An Image-Driven Uncertainty Inverse Method for Sheet Metal Forming Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The purpose of this study is to obtain a margin of safety for material and process parameters in sheet metal forming. Commonly applied forming criteria are difficult to comprehensively evaluate the forming quality directly. ... -
Design as a Marked Point Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Although artificial intelligence (AI) systems which support composition using predictive text are well established, there are no analogous technologies for mechanical design. Motivated by the vision of a predictive system ... -
Inverse Design of Two-Dimensional Airfoils Using Conditional Generative Models and Surrogate Log-Likelihoods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper shows how to use conditional generative models in two-dimensional (2D) airfoil optimization to probabilistically predict good initialization points within the vicinity of the optima given the input boundary ... -
GANTL: Toward Practical and Real-Time Topology Optimization With Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks and Transfer Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A number of machine learning methods have been recently proposed to circumvent the high computational cost of the gradient-based topology optimization solvers. By and large, these methods show tight generalizability to ... -
Mission Engineering and Design Using Real-Time Strategy Games: An Explainable AI Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Mission design is a challenging problem, requiring designers to consider complex design spaces and dynamically evolving mission environments. In this paper, we adapt computational design approaches, widely used by the ... -
Data-Efficient Machine Learning on Three-Dimensional Engineering Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Decisions in engineering design are closely tied to the 3D shape of the product. Limited availability of 3D shape data and expensive annotation present key challenges for using artificial intelligence in product design and ... -
Range-Constrained Generative Adversarial Network: Design Synthesis Under Constraints Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Typical engineering design tasks require the effort to modify designs iteratively until they meet certain constraints, i.e., performance or attribute requirements. Past work has proposed ways to solve the inverse design ... -
Classifying Component Function in Product Assemblies With Graph Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Function is defined as the ensemble of tasks that enable the product to complete the designed purpose. Functional tools, such as functional modeling, offer decision guidance in the early phase of product design, where ...