Compliant mechanisms and microsystems materials and prototyping of compliant mechanisms.Bistable compliant mechanisms and static balancing of compliant mechanisms.Instant centre and building-block methods for designing compliant mechanisms.Non-dimensional analysis of compliant mechanisms and kinetoelastic maps.

Spring-lever (SL) and spring-mass-lever (SML) models for compliant mechanisms, and selection maps.Designing compliant mechanisms using continuum topology optimization distributed compliance.Structural optimization approach to “design for deflection” of compliant mechanisms.Analysis and synthesis using pseudo rigid-body models.Large-displacement analysis of a cantilever beam and pseudo rigid-body modeling.Modeling of flexures and finite element analysis.Overview of compliant mechanisms mobility analysis.Thus compliant mechanisms can be used to easily store and/or transform energy that can be released at a later time or in a different manner. This stored energy is similar to the potential energy in a deflected spring. Compliant mechanisms rely on the deflection of flexible members to store energy in the form of strain energy. Building block method of designing compliant mechanisms: PDF unavailable: 52: Comparative analysis of different methods for designing compliant mechanisms. Howell-Midha’s elastic model: PDF unavailable: 18: Putting together the pseudo rigid-body model: PDF unavailable: 19.

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