DESIGN RULES FOR SELECTING AND DESIGNING COMPLIANT MECHANISMS FOR RIGID-BODY REPLACEMENT SYNTHESIS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 233-241

  Berglund, Michael D ^a   Magleby, Spencer P ^b   Howell, Larry L ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant Mechanisms; Design Methodology; Design Rules; Design Selection; Rigid Body Replacement Synthesis

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENGINEERS; RIGID STRUCTURES;

DESIGN CONCEPT; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN RULES; DESIGN SELECTIONS; FLEXIBLE ELEMENTS; MECHANICAL DEVICE; PERFORMANCE OF DEVICES; RIGID BODY; RIGID-BODY REPLACEMENT SYNTHESIS; SET OF RULES;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 84943633697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/DAC-14225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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