Flextures_hourglass_pivot.

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To design hourglass flexures
By Alex Slocum 5/1/99, last modified 4/24/04 by Alex Slocum
Enter numbers in BOLD, results are in RED
RR 3 Radius of hourglass
sigmax 60000 maximium allowable stress
w 0.750000 Width of web
E 2.90E+07 Modulus of elasticity
t 0.040000 Minimum thickness of web
L 0.5 Distance from web to tip
Max stress driven design
Maximum theta (rad, deg) 0.042147 2.41
Motion at end of tip 0.021074
Determine force resulting from motion to cause maximum allowable stress
F 24.0 Required force
Applied moment driven design
Applied moment, M 10
Gamma 3.02 term1 1.204E-01
Angular displacement Term a Term b
milliradians 35.123 1.71841E-05 0.331126
degrees 2.0
Motion at end of tip  
  3
Stress 50000  
 1  1   2R 2  
2
3MR
   2  
2 Ew  2  R 2       R 2   

 
L  


M F

Width w into page

t   t2R
R
 Term c Term d Term e
8.305648 8.980265 237.0656

      
   R   
3R   tan 1 
  2   2  R2   
 1  1   2R 2  
2
MR     
  2 2


2
 R     R 
2  2
  R2
 
  
   
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