TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shuib, Solehuddin 
AU  - Ridzwan, M.I.Z. 
AU  - Kadarman, A. Halim 
PY  - 2007
TI  - Methodology of Compliant Mechanisms and its Current Developments in Applications: A Review
JF  - American Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
DO  - 10.3844/ajassp.2007.160.167
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2007.160.167
AB  - Traditional rigid-body mechanisms consist of a number of components to implement their functions. Therefore they face problems such as backlash, wear, increase in part-count, weight, assembly cost and time, regular maintenance. Reducing these problems will help in increasing mechanism performance and cost reduction. Recently, there are several examples of compliant mechanisms that have been designed and widely used in various fields such as for adaptive structures, biomedical, hand-held tools, components in transportations, MEMS and robotics. However, the largest challenge was relative difficulty in analyzing and designing compliant mechanisms. Two approaches known in the literature for the systematic synthesis of compliant mechanisms are the kinematics-based approach and the structural optimisation based approach.