Abstract

Compliant Mechanism has been designed for various types of application to transmit desired force and motion. In this study, we have explored an application of Compliant Mechanism for passive vibration isolation systems, for which compliant isolator is used to cancel undesired disturbance, which results in attenuated output amplitude. The Compliant Mechanism is equipped with isolator, which acts as a transmission of force, in order to control the amount of displacement transmitted from it. Compliant Mechanism also used as passive vibration isolator. Here, introducing compliance into the connection, the transmission of applied forces is reduced at some frequencies, at the expense of increasing transmission at other frequencies. The force transmissibility is numerically identical to the motion transmissibility. In order to find the flexible building blocks for force transmissibility, structural optimization approach is applied. The Structural optimization approach focuses on the determination of the topology, shape and size of the mechanism. Thus approach is used to establish the actuator model of the block and it is validated by commercial Finite Element software. A library of compliant elements is proposed in FlexIn. These blocks are in limited number and the basis is composed of 36 elements. The force transmitted to the rigid foundation through the isolator is reduced to avoid transmission of vibration to other machines. Thus the preliminary results of FEA from ANSYS demonstrate that the compliant mechanism can be effectively used to reduce the amount of force transmitted to the surface.

Keywords:

Force transmitted, isolator, mechanism, optimization, passive vibration isolation,

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