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Short Course Shows How to Streamline Product Assembly by Using Compliant Design

Participants in the new hands-on University of Michigan short course, "Compliant Design," will have a unique opportunity to take an innovative approach to solving a real-life engineering design problem that they bring from their workplace on Oct. 13-14 in Ann Arbor.

Using specialized software and water-jet laser cutting, they will fabricate a custom original functional prototype that employs flexible adaptive shape change. This provides a whole new way to solve engineering problems because elasticity in engineering design allows the generation of most mechanical functions with a single part. Streamlined compliant systems morph without joints or hinges.

Friday 12 September, 2008 04:36 PM

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