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Modeling And Parameter Study Of Bistable Spherical Compliant Mechanisms, Chester Smith
Modeling And Parameter Study Of Bistable Spherical Compliant Mechanisms, Chester Smith
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The bistable spherical compliant mechanism (BSCM) is a novel device capable of large, repeatable, out-of-plane motion, characteristics that are somewhat difficult to achieve with surface micromachined microelectromechanical systems. An improved pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) to predict the behavior of the BSCM is presented. The new model was used to analyze seven different versions of the device, each with a different compliant joint length. The new model, which adds torsion, is compared with a finite element analysis (FEA) beam model. The new model more closely approximates the results yielded by FEA than previous models used to analyze the BSCM. Future work is …