Design synthesis of 2-D compliant mechanisms utilizing serial concatenation of building blocks

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 7, Issue PART A, 2010, Pages 299-312

  Krishnan, Girish ^a   Kim, Charles ^b   Kota, Sridhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPLIANT MECHANISM; DESIGN SYNTHESIS; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; MATRIX; PARALLEL COMBINATION; PARALLEL CONCATENATION; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; POINT OF INTEREST; ROTATIONAL PARAMETERS; SERIAL CONCATENATION; UNIQUE POINTS;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77953790886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-87445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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