Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Forming Diverse Teams From Sequentially Arriving People
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Collaborative work often benefits from having teams or organizations with heterogeneous members. In this paper, we present a method to form such diverse teams from people arriving sequentially over time. We define a monotone ... -
Investigating a Mixed-Initiative Workflow for Digital Mind-Mapping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, we report on our investigation of human-AI collaboration for mind-mapping. We specifically focus on problem exploration in pre-conceptualization stages of early design. Our approach leverages the notion of ... -
Data Fairy in Engineering Land: The Magic of Data Analysis as a Sociotechnical Process in Engineering Companies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the era of digitalization, manufacturing companies expect their growing access to data to lead to improvements and innovations. Manufacturing engineers will have to collaborate with data scientists to analyze the ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanical Design would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2019. Serving as reviewers for the journal is ... -
In Memoriam: Veniamin I. Goldfarb
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Veniamin I. Goldfarb, a well-known scholar and educator, passed away on November 12, 2019, at the age of 78. As the Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Izhevsk State Technical University, Professor Goldfarb was ... -
Influencing Greater Adoption of Eco-Driving Practices Using an Associative Graphical Display
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Substantial energy savings during the use phase of internal combustion and electric automobiles can be achieved by increasing eco-driving behavior, particularly reduced acceleration and braking. However, motivating widespread ... -
From Idea to Production: A Retrospective and Longitudinal Case Study of Prototypes and Prototyping Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study explores the value of visualizing the prototyping activities in a new product development process from idea to production. Through a case study of a hardware startup, we present a retrospective and longitudinal ... -
Integration of Normative Decision-Making and Batch Sampling for Global Metamodeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The cost of adaptive sampling for global metamodeling depends on the total number of costly function evaluations and to which degree these evaluations are performed in parallel. Conventionally, samples are taken through a ... -
Machine Learning-Based Design Concept Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In order to develop novel solutions for complex systems and in increasingly competitive markets, it may be advantageous to generate large numbers of design concepts and then to identify the most novel and valuable ideas. ... -
Data-Driven Dynamic Network Modeling for Analyzing the Evolution of Product Competitions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Understanding the impact of engineering design on product competitions is imperative for product designers to better address customer needs and develop more competitive products. In this paper, we propose a dynamic ... -
Organizing Tagged Knowledge: Similarity Measures and Semantic Fluency in Structure Mining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Recovering a system’s underlying structure from its historical records (also called structure mining) is essential to making valid inferences about that system’s behavior. For example, making reliable predictions about ... -
Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Model Spatial Grammars for Design Creation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The authors present preliminary results on successfully training a recurrent neural network to learn a spatial grammar embodied in a data set, and then generate new designs that comply with the grammar but are not from the ... -
Motion–Force Interaction Performance Analyses of Redundantly Actuated and Overconstrained Parallel Robots With Closed-Loop Subchains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Motion–force interaction performance analyses of redundantly actuated and overconstrained parallel robots with closed-loop subchains are an open problem considering two challenges: (a) how to take all the internal wrenches ... -
Large-Stroke Constant-Force Mechanisms Utilizing Second Buckling Mode of Flexible Beams: Evaluation Metrics and Design Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Compliant constant-force mechanisms (CCFMs), which provide a near constant-force output over a range of displacement, can benefit many applications. This work proposes a novel large-stroke CCFM (abbreviated as B2CCFM) that ... -
Technology-Oriented Synchronous Optimal Design of a 4-Degrees-of-Freedom High-Speed Parallel Robot
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Parameters optimization is complicated by various parameters and nonlinear design problems. In this paper, the interaction mechanism of motion/force transmissibility and various parameters on normalized motor torque and ... -
A Novel Two-Layer and Two-Loop Deployable Linkage With Accurate Vertical Straight-Line Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a novel two-layer and two-loop spatial deployable linkage which can only accurately output vertical straight-line motion. First, the degree-of-freedom (DOF) of the linkage is analyzed based on structure ... -
Report on Engineering Design Self-Efficacy and Demographics of Makerspace Participants Across Three Universities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)University makerspaces have been touted as a possible avenue for improving student learning, engagement, retention, and creativity. As their popularity has increased worldwide, so has the amount of research investigating ... -
Efficient Spot Welding Sequence Optimization in a Geometry Assurance Digital Twin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A digital twin for geometry assurance contains a set of analyses that are performed to steer the real production for securing the geometry of the final assembly. In sheet metal assemblies, spot welding is performed to join ... -
System Reliability Analysis With Autocorrelated Kriging Predictions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)When limit-state functions are highly nonlinear, traditional reliability methods, such as the first-order and second-order reliability methods, are not accurate. Monte Carlo simulation (MCS), on the other hand, is accurate ... -
Studying Dynamic Change Probabilities and Their Role in Change Propagation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Long-lived systems are likely to experience many independent modifications during their lifecycles. Prior literature provides tools for predicting how a change in a fixed system is likely to propagate, but these tools do ...