Glossary

Terms, definitions & more

Fluid-mechanical compliant Actuator

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Fluid-mechanical compliant actuator is a compliant actuator that converts the energy of a fluid medium (gas, liquid, gel) into mechanical work (deformation).

Compliant Actuator

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Compliant actuator is an actuator in which the performance of mechanical work is accompanied by the deformation of compliant components.

Compliant Joint

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Compliant joint is a structural section of a compliant mechanism with significantly increased compliance, achieved through material or geometric design, and is generally localized.

Coherent Joint

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Coherent joint is a compliant region that provides a materially inseparable connection between two parts of a mechanism and allows their relative motion.

Compliant Mechanism

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Compliant mechanism is a mechanism whose mobility is determined exclusively or primarily by the compliance of its structural sections.

Partially compliant Mechanism

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Partially compliant mechanism derives its mobility from the presence of both compliant structural sections and rigid-body joints.

Fully compliant Mechanism

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Fully compliant mechanism derives its mobility exclusively from the compliance of its structural sections.

Compliance

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Compliance is a measure of the ability of a system or body to deform under external load.

Concentrated Compliance

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Concentrated compliance occurs when the maximum dimension of the compliant region of a body is significantly smaller (at least ten times smaller) than the maximum body dimension in the direction of the propagation of this compliant region.

Distributed Compliance

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Distributed compliance occurs when the extent of the compliant region of a body is comparable to the maximum body dimension in the direction of the propagation of this compliant region.