INTEC   05402
INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO PARA LA INDUSTRIA QUIMICA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Inverse finite element method for large-displacement beams
Autor/es:
ALEJANDRO ALBANESI; VÍCTOR FACHINOTTI; ALBERTO CARDONA
Revista:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Editorial:
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
Referencias:
Año: 2010 vol. 84 p. 1166 - 1182
ISSN:
0029-5981
Resumen:
A finite element model for the inverse analysis of large-displacement beams in the elastic range is presented. The model permits determining the initial shape of a beam such that it attains the given design shape under the effect of service loads. This formulation has immediate applications in various fields such as compliant mechanism design where flexible links can be modeled as large-displacement beams. Numerical tests for validation purposes are given, together with two design applications of flexible mechanisms with distributed compliance: a flexible gripper and a flexible S-type clutch.