Three flexure hinges for compliant mechanism designs based on dimensionless graph analysis

Precision Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-100

  Tian, Y ^a,b   Shirinzadeh, B ^a   Zhang, D ^b   Zhong, Y ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compliance; Compliant mechanisms; Flexure hinges; Rotational precision

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; COMPLIANT MECHANISM; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FLEXURE HINGE; FLEXURE HINGES; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; GRAPH ANALYSIS; IN-PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; ROTATIONAL PRECISION;

MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; STIFFNESS;

HINGES;

EID: 70350123902     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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