...-up), the manufacturing process-dominant case (product/component design under a specific process), the part-redesign perspective, and sustainability perspective. Manufacturability constraints within four design levels or scales were explored as well, ranging from macro-scale to sub-micro-scale design...

... patterning of these special substructures and their physical removal once the artifact is completed. This principle can be found in the SL process. Existing cellular material manufacturing processes are limited by poor working material selection, predetermined part geometry and mesostructure...

... and manufacturing processes. In this paper, a schematic method is presented for characterizing and benchmarking the human health impact of toxic chemicals, as a visual aid to facilitate decision-making in the material selection process for sustainable design and manufacturing. In this schematic method, the human...

... magnitude of the ultrasonic signal. 13 11 2008 20 04 2009 19 08 2009 design for manufacture functionally graded materials manufacturing processes porosity porous materials structural engineering cellular structure polymeric foam graded porosity sonication manufacture...

...Masaharu Komori; Haixiang Li; Fumi Takeoka; Sonko Osawa; Osamu Sato; Takashi Kiten; Daisuke Shirasaki; Yohan Kondo The strength and vibration/noise of gears are influenced by the pitch deviation of micrometer order and therefore, advanced quality control is needed in gear manufacturing processes...

... or attributes. These structures play an important role in making selection decisions in engineering design including selecting design concepts, materials, manufacturing processes, and configurations, among others. The theoretical foundations of the method are developed and the need for consistent preferences...

... manufacturing processes design engineering materials handling equipment liquids axiomatic design fluid dispensing information content modeling redundant design Fluid dispensing is a process critical to various applications such as electronics packaging ( 1 2 ), microelectromechnical...

...Julian M. Allwood Manufacturing processes based on cutting have been extensively automated over the past 30–40 years leading to greatly increased flexibility of operation. In contrast, processes based on ductile forming have largely remained dependent on fixed tooling and lack flexibility. Recent...

..., constituting an orthogonal Taguchi array, from the input distributions. The analytical output distributions are, in turn, used to extract the reliability and robustness measures of the system. The methodology is applied to stochastic analysis of a composite materials manufacturing process under uncertainty...

...Saurabh Deshpande; Jonathan Cagan Many optimization problems, such as manufacturing process planning optimization, are difficult problems due to the large number of potential configurations (process sequences) and associated (process) parameters. In addition, the search space is highly...

... production engineering search problems design engineering manufacturing processes Product layout and packaging plays an important role in consumer product design and development. The placement of automobile parts in a new line of vehicles and the layout of electro-mechanical systems are examples...

.... 01 July 2001 01 April 2003 22 01 2004 manufacturing processes sheet materials assembly planning Compliant sheet metal assembly is a manufacturing process where two or more sheet metal parts are joined together using various joining techniques. The result of this process...

... and commitment of our former Editor, the late Prof. Lung-Wen Tsai. I am honored to follow in his footsteps to serve this creative, energetic and diverse community of scholar-engineers. mechanical engineering manufacturing processes 21 03 2003 2003 ASME ...

... Professor at Oklahoma State University and held the titles of Ohio Eminent Scholar and L. W. Scott Alter Professor at the University of Cincinnati since 1987. He established the Center for Advanced Manufacturing Processes at UC and served as its director. He was an outstanding educator, researcher...

... in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received Feb. 2000. Associate Editor: H. Lankarani. 01 Feb 2000 06 08 2002 rotors vibrations tolerance analysis random processes Monte Carlo methods manufacturing processes The unbalanced forces in rotors are random due...

... 2001 06 08 2002 manufacturing processes design for manufacture automation assembly planning Multi-stage molding refers to a molding process in which multiple materials are added in a sequence to produce multi-material objects. Multi-stage molding technique can be used to create...

... in the area of sensitivity-based design evaluation methodologies. However, currently there is no systematically defined sensitivity index, which integrates key process and product characteristics and allows for comprehensive design evaluation and easy interpretation for multi-station manufacturing processes...

... industrial robots manufacturing processes lithography sintering industrial manipulators It is always desirable to evaluate a proposed robot design prior to full prototyping to ensure the swiftest and most cost effective design changes. Even though powerful three-dimensional Computer Aided Design...

... for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received July 2000. Associate Editor: R. F. Handschuh. 01 July 2000 machine tools load distribution finite element analysis mechanical contact cutting optimisation manufacturing processes Conjugated hypoid gears...

... OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received Sept. 1999; revised Apr. 2000. Associate Technical Editor: M. A. Ganter. 01 Sept 1999 01 Apr 2000 design engineering assembly planning design for manufacture production manufacturing processes Design for Disassembly Selective Disassembly...