Abstracto

Study of Compliant Mechanisam

Lande P.R. ., Toradmal K.P.. Pathan F.A.

Traditional rigid body mechanisms are designed to be strong and stiff, and the systems are usually assembled from discrete components. These rigid body mechanisms transfer motion through their rigid joints or rigid links because of which these mechanisms have several disadvantages such as backlash, wear, requirement of lubrication, low accuracy. The single piece compliant mechanisms are found to be convenient over these rigid body mechanisms. The current paper is a insight on compliant mechanisms and discussion on advantages of these mechanisms over their counterpart conventional rigid body mechanisms. This paper also focuses on compliant mechanical amplifiers and few applications of compliant mechanisms.