...Pinar Acar Microstructures are stochastic by their nature. These aleatoric uncertainties can alter the expected material performance substantially and thus they must be considered when designing materials. One safe approach would be assuming the worst case scenario of uncertainties in design...

... to support decisions by manufacturers on product mix and by policy makers on proposing standards. A real options model is used for the time delay on investment, redesign, and pricing, integrated with a robust design formulation to optimize expected net present value (ENPV) and net present value (NPV...

...Guanglu Zhang; Daniel A. McAdams; Venkatesh Shankar; Milad Mohammadi Darani During the development planning of a new product, designers and entrepreneurs rely on the prediction of product performance to make business investment and design strategy decisions. Moore's law and the logistic S-curve...

...Shapour Azarm 23 10 2017 23 10 2017 Design Policy Although it has been my privilege and honor to serve as Technical Editor (TE) of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) for the last five years, at the end of December 2017 when my term ends, I will hand over...

...Alden Dochshanov; Matteo Verotti; Nicola P. Belfiore This article provides an overview of the operational strategies adopted in microgrippers design. The review covers microgrippers recently proposed in Literature, some of which have been systematically presented in a companion paper, where...

... parts) are, and therefore, the conceptual stage of design relies only on designer's individual skills in understanding and interpreting the compliance of the whole structure due to its peculiar geometrical characteristics. Furthermore, similarly to the case of distributed compliance, the equivalence...

..., actuation, and sensing of the gripping force. Recent investigations drew attention on the tip–environment interaction force, which gave rise to further studies on the tip compliance behavior. This paper reveals a new method for designing MEMS technology-based compliant microgrippers with prescribed...

...Pouya Tavousi; Kazem Kazerounian; Horea Ilies The synthesis of functional molecular linkages is constrained by difficulties in fabricating nanolinks of arbitrary shapes and sizes. Thus, classical mechanism synthesis methods, which assume the ability to manufacture any designed links, cannot provide...

... be achieved by this architecture is determined within an Ashby-material-property plot of thermal expansion versus thermal conductivity using the analytical methods introduced. These methods are verified using finite-element analysis (FEA) and both 2D and 3D versions of the design have been fabricated using...

...Steven Hoffenson; Rikard Söderberg Product markets can be modeled as complex systems that account for a diverse set of stakeholders and interactions. Decisions by all of the stakeholders in these systems can affect the design of new products, not only from design teams but also from consumers...

...Tzu-Chieh Hung; Kuei-Yuan Chan 1 Corresponding author. Contributed by the Design Automation Committee of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF M ECHANICAL D ESIGN . Manuscript received May 22, 2014; final manuscript received January 7, 2015; published online February 16, 2015. Assoc...

... 2014 14 11 2014 This paper presents a new concept flexure hinge for MEMS applications and reveals how to design, construct, and experimentally test. This hinge combines a curved beam, as a flexible element, and a pair of conjugate surfaces, whose contact depends on load conditions...