Toward the design of compliant actuators with a specified force and stroke

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 433-439

  Frecker, Mary ^a   Bharti, Smita ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS; ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MECHANISMS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

OPTIMAL TOPOLOGY SOLUTION; PIEZOCERAMIC ACTUATORS; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; EXTERNAL LOADS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; PIEZO-CERAMIC ACTUATORS; SCALING SCHEMES; TOPOLOGY SOLUTION;

ACTUATORS; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 1542540904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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