[HTML][HTML] Monolithic binary stiffness building blocks for mechanical digital machines

PR Kuppens, MA Bessa, JL Herder… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2021 - Elsevier
We introduce two essential building blocks with binary stiffness for mechanical digital
machines. The large scale fully compliant mechanisms have rectilinear and rotational …

Compliant mechanisms that use static balancing to achieve dramatically different states of stiffness

PR Kuppens, MA Bessa… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Stiffness in compliant mechanisms can be dramatically altered and even eliminated entirely
by using static balancing. This requires elastic energy to be inserted before operation, which …

A miniaturized statically balanced compliant mechanism for on-chip ultralow wide-bandwidth vibrational energy harvesting

H Liang, H Fu, G Hao - Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - ms.copernicus.org
This research demonstrates a miniaturized statically balanced compliant mechanism
(SBCM) at the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) scale. The primary objective is to …

Preliminary design of a revolute to prismatic morphing compliant joint

N Mouazé, L Birglen - Transactions of the Canadian Society for …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
The reduction of weight and size of mechanisms are important and difficult challenges
considering portability, energy efficiency, and simplicity of fabrication. One of the solutions to …