TY - JOUR
T1 - A monolithic compliant large-range gravity balancer
AU - Radaelli, G.
AU - Herder, J. L.
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A new monolithic fully compliant gravity balancer is designed with help of a design approach based on shape optimization. The balancer consists of one single clamped-clamped complex-shaped beam on which a weight is attached. The beam is modeled as a planar isogeometric Bernoulli beam. The goal function of the optimization consists of an energy based evaluation of the load path of the beam which is compared with a desired response. The best result of the shape optimization has been constructed out of polycarbonate sheet and out of glass-fiber reinforced plastic laminate. Both have been tested on a compression test bench. The theoretical model has good resemblance with the experimental results.
AB - A new monolithic fully compliant gravity balancer is designed with help of a design approach based on shape optimization. The balancer consists of one single clamped-clamped complex-shaped beam on which a weight is attached. The beam is modeled as a planar isogeometric Bernoulli beam. The goal function of the optimization consists of an energy based evaluation of the load path of the beam which is compared with a desired response. The best result of the shape optimization has been constructed out of polycarbonate sheet and out of glass-fiber reinforced plastic laminate. Both have been tested on a compression test bench. The theoretical model has good resemblance with the experimental results.
KW - Compliant mechanisms
KW - Constant force generator
KW - Static balancing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2016.03.015
DO - 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2016.03.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963682769
SN - 0094-114X
VL - 102
SP - 55
EP - 67
JO - Mechanism and Machine Theory
JF - Mechanism and Machine Theory
ER -