Print Email Facebook Twitter Lateral torsional buckling in translational and rotational compliant joints to obtain zero-stiffness behaviour Title Lateral torsional buckling in translational and rotational compliant joints to obtain zero-stiffness behaviour Author Moerman, Marco (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering; TU Delft Precision and Microsystems Engineering) Contributor Radaelli, G. (mentor) Herder, J.L. (graduation committee) Amoozandeh, A. (graduation committee) Jovanova, J. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Mechanical Engineering | Mechatronic System Design (MSD) Date 2023-02-24 Abstract Compliant mechanisms are a popular alternative to conventional mechanisms because of their advantages on mass reduction, friction, backlash and lubrication. However, the major drawback in the use of compliant mechanisms is the stiffness is the desired direction of motion. The advantages of conventional and compliant mechanisms can be combined if the stiffness can be reduced or ideally removed, resulting in a zero-stiffness compliant mechanism. In current designs of zero-stiffness mechanisms, a preload is applied in the stiffest (compression) direction of a flexible beam. This working principle is based on Euler buckling. In this work, compliant mechanisms with zero-stiffness behaviour are obtained using lateral torsional buckling as their working principle. For this purpose, two compliant joints are modelled in a FEA, a translational and a rotational joint. The results of the FEA are verified by experiments. Also, a sensitivity analysis is performed on the cross-sectional dimensions of the flexible beams to optimize the range of zero-stiffness. Both types of joints showed zero-stiffness behaviour for the optimal preload and a good agreement is found between simulations and experiments. From the sensitivity analysis is found that a rectangular cross-section results in the largest range of zero-stiffness. Subject Lateral torsional bucklingCompliant mechanismsZero-stiffnessTranslational jointRotational joint To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:20668720-ae87-42d8-903c-870e80412f18 Embargo date 2024-02-24 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2023 Marco Moerman Files PDF Master_thesis_Marco_Moerman.pdf 45.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:20668720-ae87-42d8-903c-870e80412f18/datastream/OBJ/view