Flexure - Wikipedia Flexures are able to achieve much lower resolution limits (in some cases measured in the nanometer scale), because they depend on bending and or torsion of flexible elements, rather than surface interaction of many parts (as with a ball bearing)
36_Carson - ESMATS Flexures are best described as “compliant structure” While they share many of the same attributes as springs, they differ in that flexures are part of the primary structure of an object or device Flexures are often integral to a device whereas springs are mechanically captured in place
Bal-tec - Flexures Single flexures can be produced with cross sections that are straight, tapered, or that conform to one curve or another These cross sections can depict the radius of a circle, a parabolic, an ellipse or it can be hyperbolic
Microsoft PowerPoint - Topic12-Flexures. ppt - University of Utah Flexures, if designed properly, are very stiff robust, light weight, maintenance free, and provide nanometer to sub-nanometer-level guiding precision (simple designs induce cosine runout errors)
Flexure - Wikiwand A flexure is a flexible element engineered to be compliant in specific degrees of freedom Flexures are a design feature used by design engineers for providing
Marcel Thomas - MIT Flexures are important for engineers because they allow stiction-less, controlled, limited-range motion These well-designed, well-understood springs can then be implemented in precision machines to allow the development of medical devices and machines for electronic fabrication