Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges

Description

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. 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. Dedication Contents Preface to the Second Edition Author 1 Introduction 2 Compliances of Basic Flexible-Hinge Segments 3 Compliances of Straight-Axis Flexible Hinges 4 Compliances of Curvilinear-Axis Flexible Hinges 5 Quasi-Static Response of Serial Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms 6 Quasi-Static Response of Parallel Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms 7 Dynamics of Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms 8 Finite Element Analysis of Flexible-Hinge Mechanisms 9 Miscellaneous Topics Index