Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Human Versus Artificial Intelligence: A Data-Driven Approach to Real-Time Process Management During Complex Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Managing the design process of teams has been shown to considerably improve problem-solving behaviors and resulting final outcomes. Automating this activity presents significant opportunities in delivering interventions ... -
Design Strategy Network: A Deep Hierarchical Framework to Represent Generative Design Strategies in Complex Action Spaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Generative design problems often encompass complex action spaces that may be divergent over time, contain state-dependent constraints, or involve hybrid (discrete and continuous) domains. To address those challenges, this ... -
Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a strong presence in engineering design for decades, and while theory, methods, and tools for engineering design have advanced significantly during this time, many grand challenges ... -
Bridging Topological Results and Thin-Walled Frame Structures Considering Manufacturability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Topology optimization has been intensively studied and extensively applied in engineering design. However, the optimized results often take the form of a solid frame structure; hence, it is difficult to apply the topological ... -
A Safety Factor Method for Reliability-Based Component Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Reliability-based design (RBD) employs optimization to identify design variables that satisfy the reliability requirement. For many routine component design jobs that do not need optimization, however, RBD may not be ... -
Unknown Parameter Excitation and Estimation for Complex Systems With Dynamic Performances
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Simulation models play crucial roles in efficient product development cycles, therefore many studies aim to improve the confidence of a model during the validation stage. In this research, we proposed a dynamic model ... -
In Memoriam: Linda Catherine Schmidt
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Professor Linda Schmidt, a pioneering leader in engineering design research and education, passed away on Mar. 12, 2021.She was born in Blue Island, Illinois, on Nov. 27, 1958, and received her B.S. degree (1989) and M.S. ... -
Automated Keyword Filtering in Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Identifying Product Attributes From Online Reviews
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Identifying product attributes from the perspective of a customer is essential to measure the satisfaction, importance, and Kano category of each product attribute for product design. This article proposes automated keyword ... -
Reconciling Enumeration Contradictions: Complete List of Baranov Chains With Up to 15 Links With Mathematical Proof
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The identification of Baranov chains is associated with the rigid subchain identification problem, which is a crucial step in several methods of structural synthesis of kinematic chains. In this article, a systematic ... -
Design of Bionic Foldable Wing Mimicking the Hind Wings of the C. Buqueti Bamboo Weevil
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The bamboo weevil, Cyrtotrachelus buqueti, has excellent flight ability and strong environmental adaptability. When it flies, its fore wings and hind wings are unfolded, whereas when it crawls, its fore wings are closed, ... -
Topology Synthesis of a Three-Kink Contact-Aided Compliant Switch
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A topology synthesis approach to design 2D contact-aided compliant mechanisms (CCMs) to trace output paths with three or more kinks is presented. Synthesis process uses three different types of external, rigid contact ... -
Design Principles for Additive Manufacturing: Leveraging Crowdsourced Design Repositories
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Industry 4.0, as the fourth industrial revolution, represents significant challenges and numerous innovation opportunities for future product realization. A critical area of Industry 4.0 is the advancement of new design ... -
Prototyping Human-Centered Products in the Age of Industry 4.0
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Industry 4.0 promises better control of the overall product development process; however, there is a lack of computational frameworks that can inject human factors engineering principles early in the design. This shortage ... -
Welcoming New Editor for Mechanisms: Qiaode Jeffrey Ge
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)I am pleased to announce that Dr. Qiaode Jeffrey Ge, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, has been appointed by the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) and the ASME Technical Committee ... -
Special Issue: Design Engineering in the Age of Industry 4.0
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This special issue is motivated by the trend of smart factories of the future toward the fourth Industrial Revolution, which makes it possible to better leverage capabilities and resources in a human-cyber-physical production ... -
Systematic Design, Control, and Parametric Testing of an Automated Resuscitator Bag Mechanical Ventilator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The COVID-19 crisis has revealed and exacerbated a shortage of mechanical ventilators in hospitals around the world, regardless of their government’s resources. Where some countries can respond to the situation by ordering ... -
Design and Kinematics of a Novel Double-Ring Truss Deployable Antenna Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper aims to present the topological structure design and kinematic analysis of a novel double-ring truss deployable satellite antenna mechanism. First, a new topological scheme and a new rectangular prism deployable ... -
Goal-Directed Design Agents: Integrating Visual Imitation With One-Step Lookahead Optimization for Generative Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Engineering design problems often involve large state and action spaces along with highly sparse rewards. Since an exhaustive search of those spaces is not feasible, humans utilize relevant domain knowledge to condense the ... -
Hybrid Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of High-Speed Thin-Rimmed Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this study, a hybrid dynamic model of high-speed thin-rimmed gears is developed. In this model, the translational and angular displacements (including the rigid and vibration displacements) with a total of six ... -
A Kinematic Analysis Method of Double Roller Tripod Joints Based on the Principle of Conjugate Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)To systematically investigate the contact constraint relationships and the influences of fit clearances on the kinematic performances of a double roller tripod joint (DRTJ), a method for the kinematic analysis of DRTJs is ...