A parameter optimization framework for determining the pseudo-rigid-body model of cantilever-beams

Precision Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-54

  Venkiteswaran, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy ^a   Su, Hai Jun ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Parameter optimization; Pseudo rigid body model; Timoshenko beam theory

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; MECHANISMS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RIGID STRUCTURES;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; MODIFIED TIMOSHENKO BEAM; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PSEUDO-RIGID BODY MODELS; TIMOSHENKO BEAM EQUATION; TIMOSHENKO BEAM THEORY;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 84922914888     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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