Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 560012, India
"Be flexible and strong."
ME254 Compliant Mechanisms Jan. 2025 to Apr. 2025
Instructor: G. K. Ananthasuresh, Room 106, ME Building, suresh at iisc.ac.in
Lectures: Tu, Th: 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM; Venue: ME MMCR

1. The first lecture will be on Jan. 7th, 2025, at 08:30 AM in ME MMCR. Please go through the first three lectures, which contain general overviews of compliant mechanisms and their applications.
   

Syllabus

Systematics and mobility analysis of compliant mechanisms. Discrete and distributed compliance. Methods of elastostatic and elastodynamic analyses including multi-axial stiffness, pseudo-rigid-body, and spring-mass-lever models. Non-dimensional analysis of compliant topologies. Energetics including mechanical advantage and efficiency; static and dynamic balancing; bistability and multistabillity. Synthesis and design methods including rigid-body replacement, topology optimization, building blocks, constraint theory, and selection maps. Applications in automotive, aerospace, biomedical, consumer products, and microelectromechanical systems

Course objectives

1. Understand and appreciate the compliant-and-strong paradigm in the design of mechanical components.
2. Analyze and synthesize compliant mechanisms using a variety of methods.
3. Design compliant mechanisms systematically for a variety of applications including automotive and aerospace structures and mechanisms, microelectromechanical systems, biomedical devices, and consumer products.

Books and references

1. NPTEL MOOC: https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/108/112108211/
2. Instructor's notes
3. L. L. Howell, Compliant Mechanisms, Wiley, 2001.

Prerequisites

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