Design for stiffness
Application of structural loops with high static and dynamic stiffness
Cases
- Statically determined long stroke linear guide
- Allowable misalignment in an overconstrained flexure mechanism
- Allowable misalignments in an overconstrained flexure mechanism: The cross-hinge
- Effects of misalignments on the static and dynamic behavior of a multiple overconstrained compliant 4-bar mechanism
- Exact Constraint Design of a Two-Degree of Freedom Flexure-Based Mechanism
- Balancing benefits and drawbacks
- 5 DOF bike hub force sensor
- Fast contactless hydrogen valve for wafer stage application
- Large range of motion flexure hinge: Infinity flexure
- Large stroke high off-axis stiffness 3DOF spherical flexure joint
- Fully flexure-based large range of motion precision hexapod
- Flexure based 6 DOF parallel manipulator for fast adaptive optics
- Flexure mechanism for eye surgery pump
- Flexures in a heavy duty H-drive gantry
- Optimal release locations in assembled overconstrained mechanisms for static determinacy
- Improved dynamics by overconstraining using viscoelastic material
- Ceramic laminate materials for combined high specific stiffness and damping
- Structural optimization of stiffness per unit of mass
- Material utilisation optimisation
- Increasing load capacity and support stiffness of flexures by overconstraining
- T-Flex-LC: A flexure-based hexapod with a simplified kinematic structure
- Double Watts flexure mechanism for a precision vacuum adhesion and friction tester
- Conveyor roller, joining shaft to roller