Tingjun Zeng

South China University of Technology | SCUT · School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering

Compliant mechanisms with curved flexure hinges/beams have potential advantages of small spaces, low stress levels, and flexible design parameters, which have attracted considerable attention in precision engineering, metamaterials, robotics, and so forth. However, serial–parallel configurations with curved flexure hinges/beams often lead to a comp...

Compliant mechanisms have increasingly sparked great attention in engineering fields. In this paper, a compact three-stage displacement amplification mechanism based on flexure hinges inspired by red blood cells (RBC-inspired flexure hinges) is designed and modeled. The lever-type, Scott-Russell and half of a dual-arm elliptical mechanism combine t...

Fruits are susceptible to damage from external loads during harvesting, transport and storage. Fruit damage is determined by its tissue mechanical properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate two theories (Hooke's and Hertz's Laws) on the apparent elastic modulus of pineapple and predict the internal mechanical damage of pineapple under compre...

Research on the mechanical harvesting of pineapples is currently in its early stages. The purpose of this study is to provide a design and configure a method for multi-flexible-fingered roller pineapple harvester. Depending on the physical and mechanical characteristics of pineapples, the evaluation function for the critical damage condition of the...