The development of a split-tube flexure

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 2000-O, Issue , 2000, Pages 861-866

  Goldfarb, Michael ^a   Speich, John E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANIPULATORS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

BEAM TYPES; BENDING RIGIDITY; FLEXURE JOINTS; JOINTS' CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-AXIS; MULTI-AXIS-; RANGE-OF-MOTION; REVOLUTE JOINTS; THIN WALLED OPEN SECTION MEMBERS; TORSIONAL COMPLIANCE;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 85119845262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2000-2432     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Crandall, S. H., Dahl, N. C., and Lardner, T. J., 1978. An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids. McGraw-Hill, New York.
2. Den Hartog, J. P., 1952. Advanced Strength of Materials. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 10-17.
3. Howell, L. L. and Midha, A., 1994, "A Method for the Design of Compliant Mechanisms with Small-Length Flexural Pivots", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 280-290.
4. Howell, L. L., and Midha, A., 1995, "Parametric Deflection Approximations for End-Loaded, Large-Deflection Beams in Compliant Mechanisms", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol 117, No. 1, pp. 156-165.
5. Howell, L. L., and Midha, A., 1996, "A Loop-Closure Theory for the Analysis and Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 121-125.
6. Howell, L. L., Midha, A., and Norton, T. W., 1996, "Evaluation of Equivalent Spring Stiffness for Use in a Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model of Large-Deflection Compliant Mechanisms", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 118, No. l, pp. 126-131.
7. Murphy, M. D., Midha, A., and Howell, L. L., 1996. 'The Topological Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms", Mechanism and Machine Theory vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 185-199.
8. Oden, J. T., 1964. Mechanics of Elastic Structures. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 42-46.
9. Paros, J. and Weisbord, L., 1965. "How to Design Flexure Hinges", Machine Design, Vol. 37, No. 27, pp. 151-156.
10. Ragulskis K., Arutunian M., Kochikian A., and Pogosian M., 1989. "A Study of Fillet Type Flexure Hinges and Their Optimal Design", Vibration Engineering, pp. 447-452.
11. Stokes, A. and Brockett, R. W., 1991. "On the synthesis of compliant mechanisms", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2168-2173.
12. ndEdition. McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 276.