LADD transmissions: Design, manufacture, and new compliance models

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-203

  Mennitto, G ^a   Buehler, M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPLIANCE MODELS; LINEAR-TO-ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT DEVICE;

TRANSMISSIONS;

EID: 0031166450     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826236     Document Type: Article

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