Computation of stiffness and stiffness bounds for parallel link manipulators

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-342

  El Khasawneh, Bashar S ^a   Ferreira, Placid M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE TOOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL CUTTING;

PARALLEL LINK MANIPULATORS; STIFFNESS BOUNDS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 0033079136     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(98)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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