Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-4-263-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-4-263-2013
Research article
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17 Jul 2013
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2013

Type synthesis of freedom and constraint elements for design of flexure mechanisms

H.-J. Su and C. Yue

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