Monolithic binary stiffness building blocks for mechanical digital machines
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2020.101120
Abstract: Abstract We introduce two essential building blocks with binary stiffness for mechanical digital machines. The large scale fully compliant mechanisms have rectilinear and rotational kinematics and use a new V-shaped negative stiffness structure to create… read more here.
Keywords: binary stiffness; stiffness; building blocks; digital machines ... See more keywords
Compliant mechanisms that achieve binary stiffness along multiple degrees of freedom
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DOI: 10.1177/00219983221146262
Abstract: Here we introduce compliant mechanisms that can be triggered using bistable switches to achieve two different states of stiffness (i.e., high and low stiffness) along multiple degrees of freedom The compliant mechanisms leverage principles of… read more here.
Keywords: compliant mechanisms; stiffness along; stiffness; mechanisms achieve ... See more keywords