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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013;2013:5686–5689. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610841

Figure 4.

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).