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Compliant Mechanisms That Use Static Balancing to Achieve Dramatically Different States of StiffnessKuppens, P.R. (author), Bessa, M.A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author), Hopkins, J. B. (author)Stiffness in compliant mechanisms can be dramatically altered and even eliminated entirely by using static balancing. This requires elastic energy to be inserted before operation, which is most often done with an additional device or preloading assembly. Adding such devices contrasts starkly with primary motivations for using compliant...journal article 2021