Flexures : elements of elastic mechanisms / Stuart T. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-417) and index.

Origins -- Advantages of flexures -- Disadvantages of flexures -- Goals of flexure design -- Design considerations -- Basic elasticity -- Behavior of materials -- Metals -- Non-metals -- Principal stresses and strains -- Biaxial stress -- Triaxial stresses -- Non-principal stresses -- Plane stress -- Three dimensional stresses -- Shear stresses and shear strain -- Yield criteria -- Ductile materials failure criteria -- Fatigue -- S/N curves -- Effects of notches -- Effects of mean stress -- Damage assessment -- Bending of symmetric beams -- The bending equation -- Deflection of beams -- Sign convention for bending moments -- Moment, shear force and rate of loading relationships -- Singularity functions -- Torsion -- Torsion of a prismatic beam of circular cross section -- Torsion of a prismatic beam of rectangular cross section -- Mobility -- Rigid body dynamics -- Generalized coordinates -- Properties of variational operators -- Commutation -- Minima of a function -- Hamilton's principle -- A simple spring mass system -- Lateral vibration of a bar -- Lagrange's equation -- Rayleigh's dissipation function -- General use of Lagrange's equation -- Linear systems theory -- The simple, single degree of freedom, linear, spring-mass-damper system -- Some equivalent definitions of a linear system -- Frequency response functions -- Measuring the critical damping ratio -- General linear systems revisited -- Multi-degree of freedom linear systems -- Note on the graphical representation of frequency response functions.

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Modern book on the application of flexures to precision mechanisms - important for a better understanding of spring suspended pendulums