Automated design of structures and compliant mechanisms by topological optimization

• Main Author: Chee, Tat Hon.
• Other Authors: Tai, Kang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechatronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/6462
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Compliant mechanisms are a class of mechanisms that achieve desired force and motion transmission by undergoing elastic deformations, in contrast to rigid-body displacements in the conventional rigid-link mechanisms. Most of the previously reported design synthesis studies in distributed fully-compl...