Study about Position of Arbitrary Point From A System Consisting of Four Bar Mechanism and Pantograph Mechanism of Super Elastic Hinges with Fixed Link


Abstract in English

The importance of pantograph mechanism and four Bar one leads to improve of two mechanisms. As we said in last papers, decreasing maintenance and having the same goal with low weight and no friction in nowadays artificial applications, appears as a needed need. The experiment refers that using flexural hinges in a system at least leads to all of that advantages. We have a plan mechanical system consisted of pantograph mechanism and four bar one, with revolute and sliding joints. Then, we replace each revolute joint with super elastic hinge. In this way, we have a gate to build a system, strongly recommended, to achieve the same goal using minimum energy. The main goal of this paper is to elaborate a mathematical mechanism able to estimate the deviations of the considered system before and after replacing revolute hinges, taking into account the real performance of the new system through additional large displacements in the flexural hinges.

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