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A novel flexural lamina emergent spatial joint
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In this article, a flexural Lamina Emergent Spatial (LES) joint is proposed to decompose large spatial rotations by employing the combination of a Out-of-plane Rotational Part (ORP) and a In-plane Rotation Part (IRP).About:
This article is published in Mechanism and Machine Theory.The article was published on 2019-12-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compliant mechanism.read more
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A pseudo-rigid body model based on finite displacements and strain energy
TL;DR: In this article, a one-DoF rigid body model is developed focusing on the pole of the displacements associated to the poses of the free-end section, and two different cases are analyzed, depending on whether the pole is a proper point or an improper point.
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Analysis of a novel variable stiffness filleted leaf hinge
TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of a variable stiffness filleted leaf hinge is presented, which consists of a flexible segment and 12 rigid supports, and the results show that the hinge is capable of variable stiffness, the stiffness can be changed in a large range.
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Design and modelling of an anti-buckling compliant universal joint with a compact configuration
TL;DR: In this article, a compliant universal joint using four identical generic sheet flexures (short sheets) and a long wire beam is presented, which is robust to axial buckling in bi-direction.
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Design and analysis of corrugated flexure-based lamina emergent spatial joints for symmetrical compliant kaleidocycles
TL;DR: A corrugated flexure-based lamina emergent spatial (CF-LES) joint is introduced for the design and analysis of symmetrical compliant kaleidocycles and the potential applications are discussed.
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Design and analysis of Lamina Emergent Joint (LEJ) based on origami technology and mortise-tenon structure
Lifang Qiu,Yue Yu,Yuansong Liu +2 more
TL;DR: A design method to achieve large deformation of Lamina Emergent torsional (LET) joints in multiple directions through origami technology through a Foldable mortise-tenon structure (FMTS).
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Influence of non-ideal fixed-end constraints on kinetostatic behaviors of compliant bistable mechanisms
Fulei Ma,Guimin Chen +1 more
TL;DR: A kinetostatic model for bistable mechanisms is presented and three examples are modeled and analyzed to show the effectiveness of the model for evaluating the influence of non-ideal constraints on the behaviors of the mechanisms.
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Introducing mass parameters to Pseudo–Rigid–Body models for precisely predicting dynamics of compliant mechanisms
TL;DR: It is concluded that the optimized PRB models can well predict the dynamics especially the low input signal frequency or mass of beams are not negligible and can significantly improve computational efficiency in dynamics simulation of compliant mechanisms.
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Analyzing the Stability Properties of Kaleidocycles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a certain class of six-jointed kaleidocycles which have a spring at each joint and provided an analysis of the stored energy of a kaleidocycle throughout its motion.
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Rapid conceptual design and analysis of spatial flexure mechanisms
TL;DR: A multi-segment energy minimization framework that integrates linear elastic theory for kinetostatic analysis of spatial flexure mechanisms and is implemented in MATLAB environment to reduce the overhead in the conceptual design stage.