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Mingze Wang1, Cheng Zhang1, Shutian Liu1
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis, Optimization and CAE Software for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Abstract:
This paper presents a new analytical model of a conical bridge-type displacement amplification mechanism (DAM) considering the effect of external loads and a piezostack actuator (PSA). With the merits of simple implementation and better fitting, the non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) is employed to parameterize conical connecting beams of the DAM, and an analytical model of the displacement amplification ratio and input stiffness is established based on Castigliano's second theorem. After that, considering the interactions with elastic loads and PSA, the actual displacement amplification ratio of the conical DAM is obtained, and the effect of the shape of connecting beams in the performance of the DAM is further analyzed. The proposed analytical model is verified by finite element analysis (FEA), and the results show a maximum error of 6.31% between the calculated value and FEA results, demonstrating the accuracy of the proposed model. A prototype of the conical DAM with optimized shape is fabricated and experimentally tested, which further validates the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed analytical model. The proposed model offers a new method for analysis and shape optimization of the bridge-type DAM under specific elastic loads.
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