Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 11-12, Pages 1049-1075Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-005-0152-4
Keywords
compliant mechanisms; compliant joints; multi-material molding; mold design
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Multi-material compliant mechanisms enable many new design possibilities. Significant progress has been made in the area of design and analysis of multi-material compliant mechanisms. What is now needed is a method to mass-produce such mechanisms economically. A feasible and practical way of producing such mechanisms is through multi-material molding. Devices based on compliant mechanisms usually consist of compliant joints. Compliant joints in turn are created by carefully engineering interfaces between a compliant and a rigid material. This paper presents an overview of multi-material molding technology and describes feasible mold designs for creating different types of compliant joints found in multi-material compliant mechanisms. It also describes guidelines essential to successfully utilizing the multi-material molding process for creating compliant mechanisms. Finally, practical applications for the use of multi-material molding to create compliant mechanisms are demonstrated.
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