Successful delivery of construction and other services has been an issue for the past 20 years. Despite technical advances such as Building Information Management (BIM), LEAN Practices, forward thinking/scheduling, costing software, and design enhancements, the construction industry, as well as others, continue to have performance issues. The conventional...

Understanding the causes and effects of dimensional and geometrical variations that result during the manufacture of mechanical products provides a major concern for designers and manufactures. Designers must carefully account for these variations so that parts assemble and function properly; otherwise, designers and manufacturers risk producing...

Mechanisms using linear springs have been widely known and researched to give increased force outputs with greater input displacements. In many applications, however, the output force may be desired to be constant regardless of input displacement. Such situations arise in applications such as robotic grasping, biomedical applications, haptic devices,...