From Intermech

"If it bends, it's funny" (Truncated after Hitchens' rules of comedy)

• Compliant mechanisms are those mechanisms that accomplish their function due to the deformation of one or more slender segments of their members; they do not rely exclusively on the relative motion between joints and the rigid link.
• Due to their monolithic nature compliant mechanisms possess two main benefits over conventional rigid-link mechanisms, namely no relative motion among pieces and no overlapping pieces.
• The absence of relative motion implies the absence of sliding friction, which eliminates wear, noise, vibration and the need for lubrication. Consequently, less maintenance is required. Furthermore, backlash is eliminated, which leads to reduced positioning error and therefore increased precision.
• The fact that there are no overlapping pieces allows fewer parts and single piece production, which reduces the assembly and weight. Therefore, compactness, miniaturization are enhanced while production costs are reduced.

Contents 1 Design Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms 2 Bibliography for the Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms 2.1 How to use it: 3 Symposium on Compliant Mechanisms 4 Links on compliant mechanisms research 4.1 Universities 4.2 Personal pages 4.3 Other institutions

Design Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms

Follow this LINK for an overview of the design methods on compliant mechanisms, related to the bibliography below. This page will provide you with some background on the structure of the classification.

Bibliography for the Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms

During the study on synthesis methods for compliant mechanisms a collection of references was collected and classified. Here is presented the bibliography classification as a classification tree.

How to use it:

• Click on a leaf to expand and interact with the classification.
• Follow the link on the left side (Bibliography for...) to the references related with each leaf on the classification tree. There you will find links to download the references in bib format.
• Follow the link on the right side to interact with the bibliography database, there you will be able to search references by author, year, keywords or any other search criterion.
• To insert new references, please follow this link and read the instructions.

Symposium on Compliant Mechanisms

We propose to organize the Second International Symposium on Compliant Mechanisms in 2011, find out more about it here

Links on compliant mechanisms research

Universities

• University of Pennsylvania - Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh
• Indian Institute of Science - Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh
• Penn State - Prof. Mary Frecker
• University of Michigan - Prof. Sridhar Kota
• University of Michigan - Prof. Shorya Awtar
• Brigham Young University - Prof. Larry Howell
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - Prof. Ole Sigmund
• Univeristy of Illinois - Prof. Laxman Saggere
• George Washington University - Kerr-Jia Lu
• Queen's University Belfast - Prof. Harold Gamble
• MIT - Prof. Martin Culpepper
• Bucknell University - Prof. Charles Kim
• Tennessee Tech University - Prof. Stephen L. Canfield
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong- Prof. Michael Y. Wang

Personal pages

• Prof. Noboru Kikuchi
• Prof. Anupam Saxena
• Prof. Sridhar Kota
• Prof. Joel A. Hetrick at University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Prof. Kang Tai at Nanyang Technological University

Other institutions

• FlexSis Inc.
• Sandia National Laboratories