fem modelling of a bellows and a bellows- based micromanipulator

PrefaceThe author wishes to thank the Helsinki University of Technology, and more precisely theControl Engineering Laboratory to have received him to perform his Master Thesis. Thewhole laboratory lead by Prof. Heikki Koivo was very kind, and never balked at helping. Aspecial thanks for having been able to participate in ANSYS ® Introductory Course, providedby Anker-Zemer Engineering. I like to thank also the Tampere University of Technology andparticularly Pasi Kallio and Quan Zhou for their participation. The Electrical Workshop atTUT was also helpful for the measurements, and have also to be thanked.Finally, I would like to thank the Centre for Scientific Computing for their providedservices and CPU-time, and especially want to tell my acknowledgement to Reijo Lingren,for his precious advises and his fruitful collaboration in ANSYS ® comprehension. He helpedme to resolve various difficult problems by using FEM, and his assistance was very profitablefor this project.ESPOO, February 1999Sébastien ROBYR