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Martin L. Culpepper, III.
Timm, Richard W. (Richard William)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
2007-01-10T16:56:03Z
2007-01-10T16:56:03Z
2006
2006
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35649
76758399
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105).
The purpose of this research is to generate visual-based methods for optimizing compliant mechanisms (CMs). Visual-based optimization methods use graphical representations (3-D plots) of CM performance to convey design information. They have many advantages over traditional optimization methods, such as enabling judgment-based design tradeoffs and ensuring robustness of optimized solutions. This research fulfilled the primary aims of determining (1) how to best convey decision-driving design information, and (2) how to interpret and analyze the results of a visual-based optimization method. Other useful tools resulting from this work are (3) a nondimensional model of a CM (a compliant four-bar mechanism) that may be used to maximize the information density of optimization plots, and (4) a new model of a compliant beam that establishes a link between beam stiffness and instant center location. This work presents designers with an optimization tool that may either be used to augment or replace current optimization methods.
by Richard W. Timm.
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