Design of compliant mechanical amplifiers for piezoceramic stack actuators considering stiffness properties

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 2000-O, Issue , 2000, Pages 867-874

  Frecker, Mary ^a   Canfield, Shawn ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; DESIGN; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; MECHANISMS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; TOPOLOGY;

ACTUATOR PERFORMANCE; COUPLING STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PIEZOCERAMIC STACK ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTY; STACK ACTUATOR; STIFFNESS PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 0242562182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2000-2433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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