Abstract
Compliant (flexure) elements provide highly precise motion guiding because they do not suffer from friction or backlash. However, their support stiffness drops dramatically when they are actuated from their home position. In this paper, we show that the existing Inverse Finite Element (IFE) method can be used to efficiently design flexure elements such that they have a high support stiffness in their actuated state. A folded leaf spring element was redesigned using an IFE code written in Matlab™. The design was validated using the commercial Finite Element software package Ansys™, showing the desired high support stiffness in the actuated state. The proposed method could aid in the design of more compact flexure mechanisms with a larger useful range of motion.
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This work is part of the research programme Möbius with project number 14665, which is (partly) financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Rommers, J., Herder, J.L. (2019). Design of a Folded Leaf Spring with high support stiffness at large displacements using the Inverse Finite Element Method. In: Uhl, T. (eds) Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science. IFToMM WC 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 73. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20131-9_209
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