Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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An LSTM-Based Ensemble Learning Approach for Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based ensemble learning approach for time-dependent reliability analysis. An LSTM network is first adopted to learn system dynamics for a specific setting with a fixed ... -
Simulation-Based Mission Mobility Reliability Analysis of Off-Road Ground Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper develops a simulation-based mission mobility reliability (MMR) analysis framework to account for uncertainty in mobility prediction of off-road ground vehicles in mission planning. A concept of MMR is first ... -
How Should We Measure Creativity in Engineering Design? A Comparison Between Social Science and Engineering Approaches
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Design researchers have long sought to understand the mechanisms that support creative idea development. However, one of the key challenges faced by the design community is how to effectively measure the nebulous construct ... -
Framing and Tracing Human-Centered Design Teams’ Method Selection: An Examination of Decision-Making Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Designers’ choices of methods are well known to shape project outcomes. However, questions remain about why design teams select particular methods and how teams’ decision-making strategies are influenced by project- and ... -
Between Worlds: Exploring the Links Between the Tangible and Intangible Costs of Prototypes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Prototyping is an important part of the design process, but researchers currently have a limited understanding of how the resources invested in a prototype or designer teams’ intent for a prototype influence decision-making ... -
Deconstruction of Idea Generation Methods Into a Framework of Creativity Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Creative ideas are a central part of design thinking, whether solving engineering problems, generating interesting art, as well as developing successful products and innovations. Idea generation methods are a well-researched ... -
Time-Dependent System Reliability Analysis With Second-Order Reliability Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)System reliability is quantified by the probability that a system performs its intended function in a period of time without failures. System reliability can be predicted if all the limit-state functions of the components ... -
Force Evaluation of Tendon Routing for Underactuated Grasping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)While the modeling analysis of the kinetostatic behavior of underactuated tendon-driven robotic fingers has been largely addressed in the literature, tendon routing is often not considered by these theoretical models. The ... -
Configuration Design of Dual-Input Compound Power-Split Mechanism for In-Wheel Motor-Driven Electrical Vehicles Based on an Improved Lever Analogy Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)High power density in-wheel motor could be achieved by integrating a high-speed ratio (larger than 25) compound power-split mechanism (CPSM) with small motors. However, due to the exhaustive searching method adopted by the ... -
Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Quasi-Static System Level Behavior of Planetary Gear Sets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study presents a unique experimental methodology that synchronously measures various quasi-static responses of a simple four-planet planetary gear set, namely, planet load sharing, overall transmission error (OTE), ... -
An Approach to Integrate Product and Process Design Using Augmented Liaison Diagram, Assembly Sequencing, and Assembly Line Balancing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Concurrent engineering is a product development approach in which engineers simultaneously design products and processes to improve customer satisfaction, enhance product quality, and reduce product costs. While various ... -
Favoring Complexity: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Factors That Influence Concept Selection When Designing for Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The capabilities of additive manufacturing (AM) open up designers’ solution space and enable them to build designs previously impossible through traditional manufacturing (TM). To leverage this design freedom, designers ... -
Sequential Sampling Framework for Metamodeling Uncertainty Reduction in Multilevel Optimization of Hierarchical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Metamodels instead of computer simulations are often adopted to reduce the computational cost in the uncertainty-based multilevel optimization. However, metamodel techniques may bring prediction discrepancy, which is defined ... -
Geometric Design, Meshing Simulation, and Stress Analysis of Pure Rolling Rack and Pinion Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The geometric design, meshing simulation, and stress analysis of pure rolling rack and pinion mechanisms are presented. Both the pinion and the rack are based on the active design of the meshing line to provide pure rolling ... -
Announcing the Journal of Mechanical Design 2018 Editors’ Choice Paper Award
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Plaques were awarded to the authors during the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019) in Anaheim, California. I would ... -
Non-Convex Feasibility Robust Optimization Via Scenario Generation and Local Refinement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Feasibility robust optimization techniques solve optimization problems with uncertain parameters that appear only in their constraint functions. Solving such problems requires finding an optimal solution that is feasible ... -
A Two-Dimensional Adjustable Constant-Force Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Constant-force mechanisms (CFMs) can produce an almost invariant output force over a limited range of input displacement. Without using additional sensor and force controller, adjustable CFMs can passively produce an ... -
Matrix-Based Operation Method for Detecting Structural Isomorphism of Planetary Gear Train Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Planetary gear sets (PGSs) have been widely used in automatic transmissions (AT) and dedicated hybrid transmissions (DHTs). In this paper, a novel isomorphic detection method for planetary gear transmission structure is ... -
Evidence-Based Structural Uncertainty Quantification by Dimension Reduction Decomposition and Marginal Interval Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Evidence theory has the powerful feature to quantify epistemic uncertainty. However, the huge computational cost has become the main obstacle of evidence theory on engineering applications. In this paper, an efficient ... -
Impact of Modularity Decisions on a Firm’s Economic Objectives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Research in modularization of product families reveals numerous individual cause and effect impacts of modularity on a firm. There are clearly many interrelated positive and negative economic impacts arising from different ...