Design for assembly guidelines for high-performance compliant mechanisms

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Gandhi, Prasanna ^a   Sonawale, Kaustubh ^b   Soni, Vaibhav ^c   Patanwala, Naved ^a   Bansode, Arvind ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d DRDO   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANISMS;

DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY; MICRO MEASUREMENTS; MICRO-FABRICATION; MICRO/NANOMANIPULATION; MONOLITHIC FABRICATIONS; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; PERFORMANCE; PRECISION MOTION; ULTRAHIGH PRECISION;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 84870045404     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4007928     Document Type: Article

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