Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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A Symmetric Multichamber Hydraulic Cylinder With Variable Piston Area: An Approach to Compact and Efficient Electrohydrostatic Actuation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents an approach for designing symmetric (effective cylinder area during extension is the same as that during retraction) multichamber cylinders with discretely variable piston area. The design methodology ... -
Study on the Precision Measurement Method of Roller Enveloping Hourglass Worm Tooth Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)To satisfy the increasing requirements of high-precision and zero-backlash transmission in the modern machine tools and industrial robots, a precision measurement method of roller enveloping hourglass worm tooth surface ... -
Bistability in Cylindrical Developable Mechanisms Through the Principle of Reflection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)We present a resource for designing bistable developable mechanisms (BDMs) that reach their second stable positions while exterior or interior to a cylindrical surface. Analysis of the necessary conditions to create ... -
A Dynamically Balanced Kinematically Redundant Planar Parallel Robot
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A dynamically balanced robotic manipulator does not exert forces or moments onto the base on which it is fixed; this can be important for the performance of parallel robots as they are able to move at very high speeds, ... -
Predicting Sequential Design Decisions Using the Function-Behavior-Structure Design Process Model and Recurrent Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In engineering systems design, designers iteratively go back and forth between different design stages to explore the design space and search for the best design solution that satisfies all design constraints. For complex ... -
Approach for Importance–Performance Analysis of Product Attributes From Online Reviews
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The importance–performance analysis (IPA) is a widely used technique to guide strategic planning for the improvement of customer satisfaction. Compared with surveys, numerous online reviews can be easily collected at a ... -
Embedded Actuation for Shape-Adaptive Origami
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Origami-inspired approaches to deployable or morphing structures have received significant interest. For such applications, the shape of the origami structure must be actively controlled. We propose a distributed network ... -
Comparing Filtering Multifidelity Optimization Strategies With a Simulation-Based Multidisciplinary Aircraft Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Multifidelity optimization leverages the fast run times of low-fidelity models with the accuracy of high-fidelity models (HFMs), in order to conserve computing resources while still reaching optimal solutions. This work ... -
Numerical Decomposition for the Reliability-Oriented Sensitivity With Dependent Variables Using Vine Copulas
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)For the reliability-oriented sensitivity analysis with respect to the parameters of input variables, by introducing the copula function to describe the joint probability distribution with dependent input variables, the ... -
Investigating Information: A Qualitative Analysis of Expert Designers’ Information Representation and Structuring Behaviors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Information organization and utilization are integral to the design and development of creative ideas. However, navigating this often complex information space can be challenging, even for experienced designers. Therefore, ... -
Only as Strong as the Strongest Link: The Relative Contribution of Individual Team Member Proficiency in Configuration Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Prior research has demonstrated how the average characteristics of a team impact team performance. The relative contribution of team members has been largely ignored, especially in the context of engineering design. In ... -
A Product Architecture-Based Tool for Bioinspired Function-Sharing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this work, we show that bioinspired function-sharing can be effectively leveraged in engineering design by abstracting and emulating the product architecture of biological systems that exhibit function-sharing. Systems ... -
Design Ideation Through Speculative Fiction: Foundational Principles and Exploratory Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The objective of this study is to position speculative fiction as a broader framework to stimulate, facilitate, and study engineering design ideation. For this, we first present a comprehensive and detailed review of the ... -
Scalable Fully Bayesian Gaussian Process Modeling and Calibration With Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo for Industrial Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Gaussian process (GP) regression or kriging has been extensively applied in the engineering literature for the purposes of building a cheap-to-evaluate surrogate, within the contexts of multi-fidelity modeling, model ... -
Barriers for Industrial Sensor Integration Design—An Exploratory Interview Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The transition to Industry 4.0 poses new challenges for sensor integration design. The foundation of any intelligent system is the data, and the data quality depends largely on the integration of the sensor generating it. ... -
Fault-Tolerant Control of Programmable Logic Controller-Based Production Systems With Deep Reinforcement Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Fault-tolerant control policies that automatically restart programable logic controller-based automated production system during fault recovery can increase system availability. This article provides a proof of concept ... -
Low-Cycle Fatigue Lifetime Estimation and Predictive Maintenance for a Gas Turbine Compressor Vane Carrier Under Varying Operating Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In the age of Industry 4.0, the capability of health management is critical to the design and maintenance of gas turbines. This study presents a probabilistic method to estimate the low-cycle fatigue (LCF) life of a gas ... -
Resource-Constrained Scheduling for Multi-Robot Cooperative Three-Dimensional Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Cooperative three-dimensional (3D) printing (C3DP)—a representative realization of cooperative manufacturing (CM)—is a novel approach that utilizes multiple mobile 3D printing robots for additive manufacturing (AM). It ... -
Knowledge-Based Design Guidance System for Cloud-Based Decision Support in the Design of Complex Engineered Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The automation and intelligence highlighted in Industry 4.0 put forward higher requirements for reasonable trade-offs between humans and machines for decision-making governance. However, in the context of Industry 4.0, the ... -
Designing a Shape–Performance Integrated Digital Twin Based on Multiple Models and Dynamic Data: A Boom Crane Example
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The digital twin, a concept that aims to establish a real-time mapping between physical space and virtual space, can be used for real-time analysis, reliability assessment, predictive maintenance, and design optimization ...