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Investigation of different compliant mechanisms
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-05-14) Sea Ordaya, Alexander Javier; Alencastre Miranda, Jorge Hernán
The use of flexible mechanisms has been increasing in the recent years. This is due of the advantages that offer with respect to rigid mechanism. However, the method to study them become more complicated. Just to mention, the mathematical equations to investigate their behavior are of a higher level, so the assistance of calculation software is required. For this reason an analytical model is developed to facilitate the study of compliant mechanism. To do this, a review of the theory involved in the calculation of compliant mechanism is made and applied in the development of the analytical model. In this case the equations derived from the Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory were used. In order to have a contrast of results, a software that use the Finite Element Method was used. After the simulation of the structures in both models, the relative errors were obtained. In the case of the simulations to obtain the displacement due to external forces, only the first node of the structures were defined as “Clamp” and the external forces were applied to the rest of the nodes. For this investigation, nine structures were simulated. To obtain a representative relative error, an average of them were calculated, which are 5.69% and 4.28% in the x and y axis respectively. Subsequently, because in all the cases, the first node is fixed, the moment at that node were obtained and compared. The average relative error found was 1.74%. After that, the simulations to obtain the forces due to the rotation of the structures were carried out. To make the simulations, the structures rotate in the range of -0.4 rad and 0.4 rad with steps of 0.1 rad. For this investigation, 4 structures were simulated and 14 parameters were defined. The maximal relative error found was 5.05%. Finally, an study of the behavior of the normalized moment at the first node of the 4 structures when the 14 parameters vary was carried out. In this investigation it was found on one hand that the parameters R1 and R2 from the structure 3 have good influence in the curves but on the other hand, the parameters R1 and α from the structure 4 have almost no influence.