Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Generation and Enforcement of Process-Driven Manufacturability Constraints: A Survey of Methods and Perspectives for Product Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Design-for-manufacturing (DFM) concepts have traditionally focused on design simplification; this is highly effective for relatively simple, mass-produced products, but tends to be too restrictive for more complex designs. ... -
Announcing the Journal of Mechanical Design 2020 Editors’ Choice Paper Awards and Honorable Mentions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)We are pleased to announce that the two winners for the Journal of Mechanical Design 2020 Editors’ Choice Paper Award.Category of Design Methods:Bradley Camburn, Yuejun He, Sujithra Raviselvam, Jianxi Luo, and Kristin Wood ... -
A Flow Information-Based Prediction Model Applied to the Nonaxisymmetric Hub Optimization of a Centrifugal Impeller
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A full-range prediction model for turbomachinery based on the flow-field information code is established in this article to solve the problems that traditional models do not have enough prediction accuracy and cannot reflect ... -
Geometric Design of the Limaçon-to-Circular Fluid Processing Machine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A limaçon machine is a rotary positive displacement device, in which the housing and rotor are constructed of limaçon of Pascal curves. Previous works have been published to investigate the working of these machines in two ... -
Gear Root Bending Strength: A Comparison Between Single Tooth Bending Fatigue Tests and Meshing Gears
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Gear tooth breakage due to bending fatigue is one of the most dangerous failure modes of gears. Therefore, the precise definition of tooth bending strength is of utmost importance in gear design. Single tooth bending fatigue ... -
Enhancing Creative Redesign Through Multimodal Design Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When designing for additive manufacturing (AM), designers often need assistance in breaking out of their conventional manufacturing mind-set. Previously, the authors derived design heuristics for AM (DHAM) to assist designers ... -
An Efficient Uncertainty Propagation Analysis Method for Problems Involving Non-Parameterized Probability-Boxes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)As a kind of imprecise probabilistic model, probability-box (P-box) model can deal with both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in parameters effectively. The P-box can generally be categorized into two classes, namely, ... -
Optimized Design of Multi-Material Cellular Structures by a Level-Set Method With Guyan Reduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Owing to their tailorable physical properties, periodic cellular structures are considered promising materials for use in various engineering applications. To fully leverage the potential of such structures, it will be ... -
Linkage, an Online Tool to Support Interdisciplinary Biomimetic Design Teams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Implementation of biomimetics in practical innovation strategies still faces various impediments. Multidisciplinary communication is one of the most recognized one. Enabling teammates having various cognitive and conceptual ... -
Design of Transformable Hinged Ori-Block Dissected from Cylinders and Cones
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Design strategies for foldable mechanisms have been developed with inspiration from origami. In this study, we investigate a new direction that blocks are folded in a way that origami folds as the ori-blocks to generate a ... -
Mechanical Structural Interference Detection for Dedicated Hybrid Transmissions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Planetary gear set (PGS) has been one of the best components to constitute a transmission configuration, including the dedicated hybrid transmission (DHT). Using different synthesis approaches, the DHT configurations can ... -
A Novel Modular Approach for Kinematic Modeling and Analysis of Planar Hybrid Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)For customized design of a hybrid manipulator for a specific application, selection of an appropriate configuration is always a challenge. To assist in this foremost decision in data-driven synthesis, a novel approach is ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Information Gathering Meetings Conducted by Novice Design Teams Across Multiple Design Project Stages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Designers often gather information, for instance through stakeholder or domain expert meetings, to understand their design problems and develop effective solutions. However, few previous studies have provided in-depth ... -
Lattice Structure Optimization With Orientation-Dependent Material Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have enabled the production of parts with complex internal geometries. However, the layer-based nature of additive processes often results in mechanical properties that ... -
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty for a Digital Thread-Enabled Design Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Digital thread is a data-driven architecture that links together information from all stages of the product lifecycle. Despite increasing application in manufacturing, maintenance/operations, and design related tasks, a ... -
Bridging Between Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing via Laplacian Smoothing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The potential of additive layer manufacturing (ALM) is high, with a whole new set of manufacturable parts with unseen complexity being offered. Moreover, the combination of topology optimization (TO) with ALM has brought ... -
A Parametric Level Set Method for Topology Optimization Based on Deep Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper proposes a new parametric level set method for topology optimization based on deep neural network (DNN). In this method, the fully connected DNN is incorporated into the conventional level set methods to construct ... -
Confidence-Based Design Optimization for a More Conservative Optimum Under Surrogate Model Uncertainty Caused by Gaussian Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Even though many efforts have been devoted to effective strategies to build accurate surrogate models, surrogate model uncertainty is inevitable due to a limited number of available simulation samples. Therefore, the ... -
Lost in Translation: Examining the Complex Relationship Between Prototyping and Communication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Prototyping plays a pivotal role in the engineering design process. Prototypes represent physical or digital manifestations of design ideas, and as such act as effective communication tools for designers. While the benefits ... -
Shaping Pedestrians’ Trust in Autonomous Vehicles: An Effect of Communication Style, Speed Information, and Adaptive Strategy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Compared with conventional vehicles, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are featured by increased energy efficiency and road safety, yet hardly meet with much success without enough human trust. Designing appropriate interactions ...