Author : Larry L. Howell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2001-08-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471384786
"Compliant Mechanisms" beschreibt eine besonders exakte, flexible und zuverlässige Entwurfsmethode im Maschinenbau, vorgestellt von einem international anerkannten Experten. Einem allgemeinen Überblick folgt die Erläuterung fortgeschrittener, moderner, zum Teil hochspezialisierter Anwendungen.
Author : Larry L. Howell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119953456
A fully illustrated reference book giving an easy-to-understand introduction to compliant mechanisms A broad compilation of compliant mechanisms to give inspiration and guidance to those interested in using compliant mechanisms in their designs, the Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms includes graphics and descriptions of many compliant mechanisms. It comprises an extensive categorization of devices that can be used to help readers identify compliant mechanisms related to their application. It also provides chapters on the basic background in compliant mechanisms, the categories of compliant mechanisms, and an example of how the Compendium can be used to facilitate compliant mechanism design. Fully illustrated throughout to be easily understood and accessible at introductory levels Covers all aspects pertaining to classification, elements, mechanisms and applications of compliant mechanisms Summarizes a vast body of knowledge in easily understood diagrams and explanations Helps readers appreciate the advantages that compliant mechanisms have to offer Practical approach is ideal for potential practitioners who would like to realize designs with compliant mechanisms, members and elements Breadth of topics covered also makes the book a useful reference for more advanced readers Intended as an introduction to the area, the Handbook avoids technical jargon to assist non engineers involved in product design, inventors and engineers in finding clever solutions to problems of design and function.
Author : Nicolae Lobontiu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2002-12-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420040278
Flexure hinges hold several advantages over classical rotation joints, including no friction losses, no need for lubrication, no hysteresis, compactness, capacity to be utilized in small-scale applications, ease of fabrication, virtually no assembly, and no required maintenance. Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges provides practical answ
Author : Xianmin Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811304327
This book covers various topics regarding the design of compliant mechanisms using topology optimization that have attracted a great deal of attention in recent decades. After comprehensively describing state-of-the-art methods for designing compliant mechanisms, it provides a new topology optimization method for finding new flexure hinges. It then presents several attempts to obtain distributed compliant mechanisms using the topology optimization method. Further, it discusses a Jacobian-based topology optimization method for compliant parallel mechanisms, and introduces readers to the topology optimization of compliant mechanisms, taking into account geometrical nonlinearity and reliability. Providing a systematic method for topology optimization of flexure hinges, which are essential for designing compliant mechanisms, the book offers a valuable resource for all readers who are interested in designing compliant mechanism-based positioning stages. In addition, the methods for solving the de facto hinges in topology optimized compliant mechanisms will benefit all engineers seeking to design micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures.
Author : David C. Morgan
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1470436744
When origami met the worlds of design and engineering, both fields embraced the ancient art form, using its principles and practices to discover new problems and to generate inventive solutions. This book demonstrates the potential of folding to improve the way things work, simplify how products are produced, and make possible new objects otherwise impossible. The solar collector, the felt stool, and the surgery tool have all been influenced in some way by folding paper. The example section is organized to show the folded figure next to the product prototype that was inspired by that work of origami. We have included models made from an array of materials over a range of sizes. This includes everything from a microscopic mechanism to huge solar panels designed to unfold in outer space. Most entries are at the prototype phase—meaning that physical hardware has been built to demonstrate the concept, but that the examples are not necessarily available commercially. Y Origami? also includes brief learning activities related to paper folding, such as a discussion of Euler's formula, angular measurements, and developable surfaces, along with more advanced topics. Throughout the book many diagrams and photographs illustrate the advancing concepts and methods of origami as an art form and a problem-solving strategy.
Author : Lena Zentner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3110477408
Compliant mechanisms and actuators are growing in importance due to their benefits in robotics, medical technology, sensor applications, or in handling compressible objects. This book helps to understand the mechanical behavior of compliant systems. Suggested classifications and different modeling methods are shown that allow for the description of compliant systems.
Author : Nicolae Lobontiu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1439893705
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.
Author : Thorsten Schrader
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2020-04-26
Category :
ISBN : 9783346174789
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 1,0, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Konstruktionstechnik), language: English, abstract: Limited material resources, competition in technology and a growing environmental consciousness are demanding high-performance in lightweight design at low-cost. One way to satisfy the high expectations in comfort and weight reduction is to implement compliant mechanisms, particulary using the opportunities of modern additive manufacturing. But the lack of examples, guidelines and resources is prohibiting a wider application. What kinds of compliant mechanisms are there? How exactly optimize compliant mechanisms lightweight designs? To what extent does the lightweight design of a bicycle suspension serve as an example? And how can you implement monolithic suspensions in vehicle systems effectively? The author Thorsten Schrader answers the most important questions about compliant mechanisms. He develops a prototype by evaluating a bicycle fork according to a Multi Body Simulation comparison between a standard suspension fork and the developed compliant system. In this way Schrader creates a guideline which helps engineers to obtain an initial design concept for any kind of compliant mechanism.
Author : Lyndon O. Barton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1466583681
This updated and enlarged Second Edition provides in-depth, progressive studies of kinematic mechanisms and offers novel, simplified methods of solving typical problems that arise in mechanisms synthesis and analysis - concentrating on the use of algebra and trigonometry and minimizing the need for calculus.;It continues to furnish complete coverag
Author : Stuart T. Smith
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789056992613
This book presents some basic flexure geometries and the analytic models, which can be assessed for specific design applications. The author then goes beyond this fundamental explanation to explore more sophisticated issues. Specifically, the text discusses integration of these flexure geometries and analytic models to produce useful mechanisms for precise motion control with fast dynamic response. This book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, particularly those who hope to acquire competence in experimental and mechanical sciences. Practicing engineers and other scientists currently working in related fields will also benefit from Flexure.
