Characteristics of beam-based flexure modules

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 625-639

  Awtar, Shorya ^a   Slocum, Alexander H ^a   Sevincer, Edip ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Omega Advanced Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam flexure; Double parallelogram flexure; Double tilted beam flexure; Elastokinematic effect; Flexure design tradeoffs; Nonlinear beam analysis; Parallelogram flexure; Tilted beam flexure

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS;

BEAM FLEXURE; DOUBLE PARALLELOGRAM FLEXURE; DOUBLE TILTED-BEAM FLEXURE; ELASTOKINEMATIC EFFECT; PARALLELOGRAM FLEXURE; TILTED-BEAM FLEXURE;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 34250654513     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2717231     Document Type: Article

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