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Abstract
Given the increasing demands for large strokes with low coupling for micro/nanomanipulation, a novel compact tilt stage is proposed based on the graded auxetic metamaterial to provide two degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) rotation motions in this paper. Firstly, graded auxetic and contracting structured honeycombs are designed with parallel combinations to provide amplified displacements driven by piezoelectric stacks, applying the orthogonal layering configuration with spatial distribution to alleviate rotation coupling. Compared with other tilt stages, larger rotation stroke and lower rotation coupling are yielded with compact dimension, attributed to intensive honeycomb structures. Then, the attention mechanism is involved in a compact neural network model to predict boundary conditions of the elliptical integral model, improving accuracy and simplifying derivation. Through sensitivity analysis and parametric optimization, the structural parameters are determined. To validate the effectiveness of design and modeling, the prototype of the proposed 2-DOF tilt stage is fabricated with the volume of 29*29*32 mm. Experimental results show the rotation strokes of 17.98 and 18.82 mrad, with the coupling ratio of 0.46% and 0.45%, respectively.
期刊介绍:
Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.
Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.
The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.