Synthesis of bistable compliant four-bar mechanisms using polynomial homotopy

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1094-1098

  Su, Hai Jun ^a   McCarthy, J Michael ^b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; KINEMATICS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

BISTABLE COMPLIANT MECHANISM; KINEMATIC SYNTHESIS EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL HOMOTOPY CONTINUATION; RIGID-BODY MECHANISMS;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 35448946074     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2757192     Document Type: Article

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