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A flexure pivot, utilized in place of bearings for their frictionless properties in precision alignment mechanisms and scientific instruments. A flexure bearing is a category of flexure which is engineered to be compliant in one or more angular degrees of freedom. Flexure bearings are often part of compliant mechanisms. Flexure bearings serve ...
A flexure pivot, utilized in place of bearings for its frictionless adjustment properties. A living hinge (a type of flexure), on the lid of a Tic Tac box. This hinge has one compliant degree of freedom. A flexure is a flexible element (or combination of elements) engineered to be compliant in specific degrees of freedom. [1]
A living hinge or integral hinge is a thin flexible hinge (flexure bearing).It is made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects. It is typically thinned or cut to allow the rigid pieces to bend along the line of the hinge.
A ball bearing. A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts.
In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element. The structural element is assumed to be such that at least one of its dimensions is a small fraction, typically 1/10 or less, of the other ...
The major difference being that with the addition of a fourth bearing the portion of the beam between the two loading points is put under maximum stress, as opposed to only the material right under the central bearing in the case of three-point bending.
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FACT library of freedom and constraint spaces used to design parallel flexure systems. Freedom and constraint topologies (a.k.a., freedom, actuation, and constraint topologies; or simply FACT) [1] [2] [3] is a mechanical design framework developed by Dr. Jonathan B. Hopkins.