Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-4-319-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-4-319-2013
Research article
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01 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 01 Oct 2013

Designing hybrid flexure systems and elements using Freedom and Constraint Topologies

J. B. Hopkins

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