... Abstract It is well known that mechanical advantage (MA) of compliant mechanisms is less than that of their rigid-body equivalents because a part of the input energy is used to deform elastic segments. Furthermore, MA of compliant mechanisms depends on the gap before engaging with the workpiece...

... efforts to understand and improve this component are required. In this work, a noncircular chainring with custom geometry was designed, manufactured, and tested. A numerical model was developed to study the effect of the chainring geometry on the mechanical advantage of the bicycle transmission system...

... are investigated for cam-follower non-interference using a novel pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) approach and verified by finite element analysis. The exercise devices generally ignore in their conceptualization and design the anatomical mechanical advantage. This methodology, owing to the nature of the experiment...

... of a given mechanism or to synthesize mechanisms that have to match specific requirements about the singularities. spherical mechanisms singular configurations velocity ratio mechanical advantage dead point 1 Copyright © 2010 by ASME Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering...

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... configurations instant center angular velocity velocity ratio mechanical advantage Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2007 1 Copyright © 2007 by ASME INTRODUCTION The instantaneous kinematics...

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