Resumen

KENNEDY-CABRERA, H. D. et al. Fabricación y caracterización de un amplificador mecánico flexible. Rev. mex. fis. [online]. 2014, vol.60, n.4, pp.282-289. ISSN 0035-001X.

The performance characteristics of a compliant mechanical displacement amplification mechanism, as well as the geometrical gain in forced regime, the geometrical gain in resonance and the resonance frequency are obtained by using optical interferometry and compared with values obtained using the finite element analysis software ANSYS. The operation principle and the limits of the compliant mechanism are described by numerical simulations in ANSYS. The similarity between the experimental results and numerical simulations show that the used methodology is adequate to describe its design and its mechanical performance.

Palabras llave : Mechanical amplification; compliant mechanism; piezoamplification; mechanical design; CNC fabrication.