Design of Compliant Mechanisms: Applications to MEMS
dc.contributor.author | Kota, Sridhar | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Joo, Jinyong | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Zhe | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rodgers, Steven M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sniegowski, Jeff | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:13:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:13:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Kota, Sridhar; Joo, Jinyong; Li, Zhe; Rodgers, Steven M.; Sniegowski, Jeff; (2001). "Design of Compliant Mechanisms: Applications to MEMS." Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 29 (1-2): 7-15. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44061> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0925-1030 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-1979 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44061 | |
dc.description.abstract | Compliant mechanisms are single-piece flexible structures that deliver the desired motion by undergoing elastic deformation as opposed to jointed rigid body motions of conventional mechanisms. Compliance in design leads to jointless, no-assembly (Fig. 1), monolithic mechanical devices and is particularly suited for applications with small range of motions. The compliant windshield wiper shown in Fig. 1 illustrates this paradigm of no-assembly. Conventional flexural mechanisms employ flexural joints that connect relatively rigid links as depicted in Fig. 2. Reduced fatigue life, high stress concentration and difficulty in fabrication are some of the drawbacks of flexural joints. Our focus is on designing compliant mechanisms with distributed compliance which employs flexural links (see Fig. 3) and have no joints (neither pin nor flexural joints) for improved reliability, performance, and ease of manufacture. Distributed compliant mechanisms derive their flexibility due to topology and shape of the material continuum rather than concentrated flexion at few regions. This paper focuses on the unique methodology employed to design jointless mechanisms with distributed compliance. The paper also illustrates a compliant stroke amplification mechanism that was recently designed, fabricated and tested for MEMS application. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Electronic and Computer Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Signal, Image and Speech Processing | en_US |
dc.subject.other | MEMS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Compliant Mechanism | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Topology Synthesis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Size and Shape Synthesis | en_US |
dc.title | Design of Compliant Mechanisms: Applications to MEMS | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Electrical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Intelligent Micromachine Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185-1080 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Intelligent Micromachine Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185-1080 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44061/1/10470_2004_Article_353448.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011265810471 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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