Compliant Mechanisms
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Compliant Mechanisms

Design of Flexure Hinges

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Compliant Mechanisms

Design of Flexure Hinges

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With a rigorous and comprehensive coverage, the second edition of Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges provides practical answers to the design and analysis of devices that incorporate flexible hinges. Complex-shaped flexible-hinge mechanisms are generated from basic elastic segments by means of a bottom-up compliance (flexibility) approach. The same compliance method and the classical finite element analysis are utilized to study the quasi-static and dynamic performances of these compliant mechanisms. This book offers easy-to-use mathematical tools to investigate a wealth of flexible-hinge configurations and two- or three-dimensional compliant mechanism applications.

FEATURES



  • Introduces a bottom-up compliance-based approach to characterize the flexibility of new and existing flexible hinges of straight- and curvilinear-axis configurations



  • Develops a consistent linear lumped-parameter compliance model to thoroughly describe the quasi-static and dynamic behavior of planar/spatial, serial/parallel flexible-hinge mechanisms



  • Utilizes the finite element method to analyze the quasi-statics and dynamics of compliant mechanisms by means of straight- and curvilinear-axis flexible-hinge elements



  • Covers miscellaneous topics such as stress concentration, yielding and related maximum load, precision of rotation of straight- and circular-axis flexible hinges, temperature effects on compliances, layered flexible hinges and piezoelectric actuation/sensing



  • Offers multiple solved examples of flexible hinges and flexible-hinge mechanisms.

This book should serve as a reference to students, researchers, academics and anyone interested to investigate precision flexible-hinge mechanisms by linear model-based methods in various areas of mechanical, aerospace or biomedical engineering, as well as in robotics and micro-/nanosystems.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780429527401
Edition
2
Topic
Tecnología e ingeniería
Subtopic
Ingeniería mecánica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface to the Second Edition
  8. Author
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction
  10. Chapter 2 Compliances of Basic Flexible-Hinge Segments
  11. Chapter 3 Compliances of Straight-Axis Flexible Hinges
  12. Chapter 4 Compliances of Curvilinear-Axis Flexible Hinges
  13. Chapter 5 Quasi-Static Response of Serial Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms
  14. Chapter 6 Quasi-Static Response of Parallel Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms
  15. Chapter 7 Dynamics of Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms
  16. Chapter 8 Finite Element Analysis of Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms
  17. Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Topics
  18. Index