...J. Michael McCarthy 11 06 2003 mechanical engineering production education The Journal of Mechanical Design serves the mechanical engineering research community by publishing research papers and technical briefs that contain new contributions to mechanical design scholarship...

...Hui Li, Graduate Research Assistant; Shapour Azarm, Professor An approach in product line design is presented in which a line of products is selected while accounting for their market potential. In this approach, the product line design selection is viewed as a selection problem with two main...

... in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received August 2000. Associate Editor: J. S. Rastagor. 01 August 2000 06 08 2002 design engineering production mechanical engineering torque control mechanical control equipment splines (mathematics) The growing need in automatic...

... that under some circumstances, the prices quoted in materials markets reflect the environmental impact for the production of these materials. Two polymers are inefficient for all indexes. For these materials, the markets clearly fail to account for the negative externalities of these materials. Nine...

... in which they occurred. The proposed algorithms analyze selective disassembly from the geometric perspective and are applicable for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional product assemblies. [S1050-0472(00)01402-1] Contributed by the Design Automation Committee for publication in the JOURNAL...