Methodology of Compliant Mechanisms and its Current Developments in Applications: A Review
Abstract
Traditional rigid-body mechanisms consist of a number of components to implement their functions. Therefore they face problems such as backlash, wear, increase in part-count, weight, assembly cost and time, regular maintenance. Reducing these problems will help in increasing mechanism performance and cost reduction. Recently, there are several examples of compliant mechanisms that have been designed and widely used in various fields such as for adaptive structures, biomedical, hand-held tools, components in transportations, MEMS and robotics. However, the largest challenge was relative difficulty in analyzing and designing compliant mechanisms. Two approaches known in the literature for the systematic synthesis of compliant mechanisms are the kinematics-based approach and the structural optimisation based approach.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2007.160.167
Copyright: © 2007 Solehuddin Shuib, M.I.Z. Ridzwan and A. Halim Kadarman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Compliant mechanisms
- rigid-body mechanisms
- kinematics and structural optimisation based approach