Figure 4.
Optimal jaw design: (a) Stress distribution while opening the jaws, (b) Fatigue life under 1 N cyclic loading: more than 60,000 cycles of actuation cycles before failure based on nitinol use (E=41 GPa, ν=0.33).
Optimal jaw design: (a) Stress distribution while opening the jaws, (b) Fatigue life under 1 N cyclic loading: more than 60,000 cycles of actuation cycles before failure based on nitinol use (E=41 GPa, ν=0.33).