In order to investigate the influence of the stiffness of the compliant prismatic pair, a planar four-bar parallelogram, in a fully compliant parallel mechanism, the stiffness model of the passive compliant prismatic pair in a compliant parallel positioning stage is established using the compliant matrix method and matrix transformation. The influences of the constraints and the compliance of t...

Sensitivity analyses are frequently used during the design of engineering systems to qualify and quantify the effect of parametric variation in the performance of a system. Two primary types of sensitivity analyses are generally used: local and global. Local analyses, generally involving derivative-based measures, have a significantly lower computational burden than global analyses but only pro...

0. Introduction 229 Par t I. Summary of main results 231 1. The geometric situation giving rise to variation of Hodge structure. . . . 231 2. Data given by the variation of Hodge structure 232 3. Theorems about monodromy of homology 235 4. Theorems about Picard-Fuchs equations (Gauss-Manin connex ion) . . . . 237 5. Global theorems about holomorphic and locally constant cohomology classes 242 6...