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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 047138478X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471384786
• Author: Larry L. Howell (Author)

A concise survey of compliant mechanisms-from fundamentals to state-of-the-art applications
This volume presents the newest and most effective methods for the analysis and design of compliant mechanisms. It provides a detailed review of compliant mechanisms and includes a wealth of useful design examples for engineers, students, and researchers.
Concise chapters guide the reader from simple to more challenging concepts-using examples of increasing complexity-eventually leading to real-world applications for specific types of devices. The author focuses on compliant mechanisms that can be designed using both standard linear beam equations and more advanced pseudo-rigid-body models. He describes a number of special-purpose compliant mechanisms that have use across a wide range of applications and discusses compliant mechanisms in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) with several accompanying MEMS examples.

Table contents:

Preface.

Introduction.

Flexibility and Deflection.

Failure Prevention.

Rigid-Link Mechanisms.

Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model.

Force-Deflection Relationships.

Numerical Methods.

Compliant Mechanism Synthesis.

Optimal Synthesis with Continuum Models.

Special-Purpose Mechanisms.

Bistable Mechanisms.

Appendix A: References.

Appendix B: Properties of Sections.

Appendix C: Material Properties.

Appendix D: Linear Elastic Beam Deflections.

Appendix E: Pseudo-Rigid-Body Models.

Appendix F: Evaluation of Elliptic Integrals.

Appendix G: Type Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms.

Index.