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“Introducing Flexible Machines: Course Overview” – Compliant Mechanism Design (Part 1)

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Compliant Mechanism Design

by Dr. Jonathan B. Hopkins, Ph.D., UNLC.

ORIGAMI

Origami

Bullet-proof Origami

Origami Inspires Tiny Medical Devices

Origami in Space: BYU-designed solar arrays inspired by origami

Curved-Folding-Inspired Deployable Mechanisms

Highly Compressible Origami Bellows

How Origami is Inspiring Scientific Creativity

Offset Panel Technique

Rigidly Foldable Origami Twists

Origami Spherical Mechanism

BYU Engineers Hope to Help Back Pain

Origami Kinetic Sculpture

Rigidly Foldable Origami Twists

SPACE

Space

Origami in Space: BYU-designed solar arrays inspired by origami

NSF helps launch origami into space - Science Nation

Antenna Application of Compliant Pointing Mechanism

Thruster Application of Compliant Pointing Mechanism

BIOMEDICAL

Biomedical

Origami Inspires Tiny Medical Devices

BYU Engineers Hope to Help Back Pain

Mechanisms

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS

3D Printed Fully Compliant Switch

3D Printed Ortho-Planar Spring

3D Printed Origami Inspired Forceps

3D Printed Compliant Centrifugal Clutch

Developable Mech

DEVELOPABLE MECHANISMS

New Devices morph and transform - like Iron Man's suit

Other

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