Design and development of a toroidal flexure for extended motion applications

Precision Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-145

  Cuttino, James F ^a   Van Dijck, Bart H C A ^b   Brown, Andrew M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Koninklijke BAM Groep nv   (Netherlands)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended motion; Stress; Toroidal flexure

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTICITY; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; ROTORS; SERVOMOTORS; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; EXTENDED MOTION; RADIAL STIFFNESS; TOROIDAL FLEXURE;

PRECISION ENGINEERING;

EID: 14944351794     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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