Bistable Compliant Mechanism
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 Published On Premiered Mar 18, 2021

Index

0:16 Multiple Material Prints
0:34 Design Prototype Test Improvements
1:00 Bistable Compliant Mechanism
1:32 Failures at interfaces
2:30 Flexible single piece
3:50 STEP file export
4:10 Thangs Upload (Assembly)
4:52 Thangs Exploded Viewer
5:50 Final Part
6:08 satisfying SNAP!

This Part at Thangs: https://thangs.com/yepher
Other Designs:
° https://www.thingiverse.com/yepher/de...
° https://github.com/yepher/3d_print_mo...

° How the Broom-Holder was Designed    • FrictionHanger  


Check out the great content by Matthew over at Design, Prototype, Test
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The Paper I referenced in the video:
Chen, T., Mueller, J. & Shea, K. Integrated Design and Simulation of Tunable, Multi-State Structures Fabricated Monolithically with Multi-Material 3D Printing. Sci Rep 7, 45671 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45671

Learn More about Compliant Mechanisms

Veritasium - Why Machines That Bend Are Better
   • Why Machines That Bend Are Better  

Compliant Mechanisms Research Group at Brigham Young University.
https://www.compliantmechanisms.byu.edu

More BYU CMR Designs: https://www.thingiverse.com/byu_cmr/d...

BYU Professor Larry Howell literally wrote the book on Compliant Mechanisms: https://amzn.to/3cMxqxz


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