Timeline for Why are many compliant mechanisms only flexible in the joints?
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 0:14 | comment | added | joojaa | Yes, the center does not rotate just translate. The benefit of compliant joints here is that they dont exhibit stick slip. Which allows you to be very precise indeed. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 16:04 | comment | added | Beacon of Wierd | Ah, This makes more sense than the other answers. I thought it would be equivalent to just have a thin part, but with the bar example it becomes obvious that a flexible bar would allow rotation of the central part which is not allowed with a stiff bar :) | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 16:01 | vote | accept | Beacon of Wierd | ||
| Mar 4, 2021 at 14:52 | history | edited | joojaa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2021 at 13:39 | history | answered | joojaa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |