TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,S.T.
TI  - Flexures: elements of elastic mechanisms 
SN  - 9056992619
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Gordon and Breach
KW  - Flexure
KW  - Elasticity
KW  - fast
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Flexures
KW  - Suspension-spring
N1  - 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
ER  -