... by introducing the concept of a storage spring. The storage spring supplies or stores the energy necessary to adjust the balancer spring of the gravity equilibrator. In essence, the storage spring mechanism maintains a constant potential energy within the spring mechanism; energy is exchanged between the storage...

... design engineering electric drives shape memory effects springs (mechanical) spring design shape memory alloys wave spring Shape memory alloys (SMAs) can be exploited successfully to build solid-state actuators of reduced complexity and lower weight than conventional competitors. Many...

..., packing optimization involves the arrangement of components in available spaces such that given objectives can be optimized without violating any space or performance constraints. automotive components CAD mechanical engineering computing optimisation road vehicles springs (mechanical...

... drives finite element analysis minimisation mirrors springs (mechanical) torsion design optimization computer-aided design spring design According to Ref. 6 , the material used for the torsional spring exhibited an ultimate tensile strength ( σ u ) of approximately...

... profile can be obtained. The phenomenon of twice engagement is discussed for the first time. 03 11 2009 22 10 2010 06 01 2011 06 01 2011 cams (mechanical) drives geometry shear modulus splines (mechanical components) springs (mechanical) Musser , C. W...

... in windmills. cantilevers drives finite element analysis gears machine bearings springs (mechanical) 05 11 2009 03 11 2010 29 12 2010 29 12 2010 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

.... , “A Multicriteria Approach Resolving Ellsberg’s Paradox With Comments on Criteria Aggregation,” International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (to be published). 23 05 2009 18 10 2010 15 11 2010 15 11 2010 damping design engineering force springs (mechanical) statistical...

... generation power transmission (mechanical) springs (mechanical) gear transmission error tooth flank form In the transport industry, gear transmission error in power transmissions remains one of the most challenging issues. For that reason, a large amount of research has been conducted...

...) shearing shock absorbers springs (mechanical) torsion vibrations A significant amount of vibration in many rotating mechanical systems seems to be a viable potential source of energy for sensors and other instruments. In general, harvesting or scavenging kinetic energy associated...

... on passive compliance ( 10 11 12 ). The SLM installed at the middle of the link part of a robot arm can absorb a collision force in all directions except the direction along the axis of SLM. However, the wire structure to transmit an external force to the nonlinear spring mechanism of the SLM often suffers...

.... Electron. 0278-0046 , 56 , pp. 2644 – 2656 . 10.1109/TIE.2009.2019773 19 12 2009 20 03 2010 25 05 2010 25 05 2010 shape memory effects springs (mechanical) spring design shape memory alloys thermomechanical characterization In the last decades...

... 08 02 2010 29 04 2010 29 04 2010 Bayes methods reliability theory springs (mechanical) statistical distributions structural engineering suspensions (mechanical components) Bayesian approach reliability analysis epistemic uncertainty Kriging dimension reduction method...

... 20 10 2009 30 12 2009 30 12 2009 cams (mechanical) engines pneumatic systems power transmission (mechanical) springs (mechanical) valves In valve train and generally in automated machines, cam-follower mechanisms are used by designers to obtain a particular output...

... springs (mechanical) Initial work in compliant mechanism design utilized linear finite element analysis to approximate a mechanism’s response ( 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ). Increasingly, applications required compliant mechanisms to have larger ranges of motion and nonlinear behavior. Thus, recent...

.... The details of the control approach are beyond the scope of this paper. 11 12 2008 09 09 2009 09 11 2009 09 11 2009 control system synthesis elasticity electric actuators legged locomotion motion control position control springs (mechanical) The concept of series...

... elasticity springs (mechanical) torque Modern textbooks on strength or mechanics of materials often use the classic linear spring F = k x to represent or highlight various aspects of behavior, including the bending of beams and the twisting of elastic rods. Interestingly though, while...

... life of the mechanism, bandwidth of the servo systems, and positioning accuracy of the machine. 21 10 2008 22 03 2009 27 05 2009 beams (structures) drives fasteners fatigue finite element analysis machine bearings machine tools position control servomechanisms springs...

... by the spring balancing designs of a general Stephenson-III type six-bar linkage and a Watt-I type six-bar linkage with parallel motion. 30 05 2008 06 01 2009 03 04 2009 bars couplings design engineering kinematics springs (mechanical) vectors static balance zero free-length...

... twist behavior, which is the main indicator of deployment failure. This investigation underlines the requirement of actuator control during deployment. actuators aerospace robotics elongation fasteners regression analysis springs (mechanical) telescopes A number of significant...

... function is presented and several numerical problems are considered to check the validity and usefulness of the developed formulation. 19 03 2008 24 10 2008 06 01 2009 beams (structures) deformation elasticity gradient methods plates (structures) springs (mechanical...