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16 Aug 2011
Research article |
| 16 Aug 2011
Fully-compliant statically-balanced mechanisms without prestressing assembly: concepts and case studies
G. Chen
School of Mechatronics, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
S. Zhang
School of Mechatronics, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
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