Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Impact of Generational Commonality of Short Life Cycle Products in Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Short life cycle products are frequently replaced and discarded, even though they are resource-intensive products. Technological advances and rapid changes in demand have led manufacturers to develop their innovative ... -
Adding a Detrital Actor to Increase System of System Resilience: A Case Study Test of a Biologically Inspired Design Heuristic to Guide Sociotechnical Network Evolution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Networking complex sociotechnical systems into larger Systems of Systems (SoS) typically results in improved performance characteristics including sustainability, efficiency, and productivity. The response, or lack thereof, ... -
Predicting Design Performance Utilizing Automated Topic Discovery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Increasingly complex engineering design challenges requires the diversification of knowledge required on design teams. In the context of open innovation, positioning key members within these teams or groups based on their ... -
Design and Analysis of New Haptic Joysticks for Enhancing Operational Skills in Excavator Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The design perspective of interfaces has strong implications on operator intuition and safety. Haptics enabled user interfaces can enhance operator skills and enhance interactivity. In this paper, an innovative method of ... -
Quantifying the Importance of Solar Soft Costs: A New Method to Apply Sensitivity Analysis to a Value Function
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a new approach to build a decision model for government funding agencies, such as the US Department of Energy (DOE) solar office, to evaluate solar research funding strategies. High solar project ... -
Optimizing Architecture Transitions Using Decision Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Architecture selection for systems undergoing rapid technological and market change is challenging. It is desirable to select architectures that can provide cost-effective possibilities for future changes and avoid ... -
Designing Representative Model Worlds to Study Socio-Technical Phenomena: A Case Study of Communication Patterns in Engineering Systems Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The engineering of complex systems, such as aircraft and spacecraft, involves large number of individuals within multiple organizations spanning multiple years. Since it is challenging to perform empirical studies directly ... -
Combining Direct and Indirect User Data for Calculating Social Impact Indicators of Products in Developing Countries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Evaluating the social impacts of engineered products is critical to ensuring that products are having their intended positive impacts and learning how to improve product designs for a more positive social impact. Quantitative ... -
Digital Design Automation to Support In Situ Embedding of Functional Objects in Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Additive manufacturing (AM) offers designers access to the entire volume of an artifact during its build operation, including the embedding of foreign objects, like sensors, motors, and actuators, into the artifact to ... -
Computational Study on Machine Settings for Face-Milled Hypoid Gears With Low Shaft Angles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Hypoid gear with small cone angle and large pitch cone distance can be directed at the transmission with low shaft angle (LSA). The manufacturing process has more freedoms of motion to control the tooth surface and ensure ... -
Study on Building Digital-Twin of Face-Milled Hypoid Gear From Measured Tooth Surface Topographical Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A highly accurate digital-twin spiral bevel gear or hypoid gear is often required for dynamic analysis or stress analysis for gear transmission. However, a highly accurate digital-twin solid model is not always available ... -
Mobility Analysis of Thin-Panel Origamis Based on a Coplanar 2-Twist Screw System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents an intuitive approach for mobility analysis of thin-panel origamis based on a coplanar 2-twist screw system, which consists of a pair of parallel/concurrent line vectors. In this study, we first proved ... -
Zero Torque Compliant Mechanisms Employing Pre-buckled Beams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The concept of a statically balanced mechanism with a single rotational degree-of-freedom is presented. The proposed device achieves static balancing by combining positive stiffness elements and negative stiffness elements ... -
Estimating Effect of Additional Sample on Uncertainty Reduction in Reliability Analysis Using Gaussian Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)An approach is proposed to quantify the uncertainty in probability of failure using a Gaussian process (GP) and to estimate uncertainty change before actually adding samples to GP. The approach estimates the coefficient ... -
Microstructural Stress Shape Optimization Using the Level Set Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper applies stress-based shape optimization to microstructures, a scarcely explored topic in the literature. As the actual stresses arising at the macroscopic structure are scale separated, the microstrucural stress ... -
Investigation of a Voronoi Diagram Representation for the Computational Design of Additively Manufactured Discrete Lattice Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A lattice structure is defined by a network of interconnected structural members whose architecture exhibits some degree of regularity. Although the overall architecture of a lattice may contain many members, its generation ... -
Multi-Objective Redundancy Allocation for Multi-State System Design Under Epistemic Uncertainty of Component States
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Multi-state is a typical characteristic of engineered systems. Most existing studies of redundancy allocation problems (RAPs) for multi-state system (MSS) design assume that the state probabilities of redundant components ... -
Simultaneous Packing and Routing Optimization Using Geometric Projection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A new method for optimizing the layout of device-routing systems is presented. Gradient-based topology optimization techniques are used to simultaneously optimize both device locations and routing paths of device interconnects. ... -
Sequential Radial Basis Function-Based Optimization Method Using Virtual Sample Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)To further reduce the computational expense of metamodel-based design optimization (MBDO), a novel sequential radial basis function (RBF)-based optimization method using virtual sample generation (SRBF-VSG) is proposed. ... -
Function Modeling: A Modeling Behavior Analysis of Pause Patterns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a behavior-based protocol study conducted with mechanical engineering students, where the participants developed function–structure models for a novel design problem. A modeling activity video was ...