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Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering >> 2010, Volume 5, Issue 3 doi: 10.1007/s11465-010-0019-8

Modeling of large-deflection links for compliant mechanisms

College of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China;

Available online: 2010-09-05

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Abstract

The traditional pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) has one degree of freedom (DOF) and performs a good simulation to the tip locus of flexible links for compliant mechanisms on the basis of a parametric approximation method. In this study, a new approach of a two-DOF PRBM is proposed to simulate both the tip locus and tip deflection angle of large-deflection links for compliant mechanisms on the basis of the angular deflection approximation technique. A linear regression for the spring stiffness coefficient of the 2R PRBM using the optimization technique is presented. The advantage of the new model is well illustrated through a numerical comparison between the 1R and the 2R PRBM.

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