DESIGN OF EFFICIENT COMPLIANT MECHANISMS FROM GROUND STRUCTUREBASED OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 7B, Issue , 2000, Pages 837-844

  Frecker, Mary ^a   Canfield, Shawn ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HINGES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

FRAME ELEMENTS; GROUND STRUCTURE; MONOLITHIC COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; SOLID MODELLING; SOLUTION TO SOLIDS; STRUCTURE TOPOLOGY; STRUCTURE-BASED; TOPOLOGY SOLUTION; TRUSS ELEMENTS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 84862048629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/MECH-14142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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