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2026

Estimating the effect of nestling sequences on planar kinematic couplings (2026)In American Society for Precision Engineering: Annual Meeting. 40th 2025. American Society for Precision Engineering. de Jong, J. J., van Ruiten, F. M. & Brouwer, D. M.

2025

Negative stiffness module for highly sensitive low noise seismometer (2025)In Euspen's 25th International conference & Exhibition. EUSPEN. Theans, S., de Jong, J., Brouwer, D. M., van Giessen, N., Oudes, J. & d’Achard van Enschut, H.https://www.euspen.eu/knowledge-base/ICE25280.pdfActive damping of flexure mechanisms: Modelling, design and control for large deflections (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Seinhorst, B.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036566377Design of an Underactuated, Flexure-Based Gripper, Actuated Through a Push–Pull Flexure (2025)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 17(6). Article 061009. Dwarshuis, K., de Jong, J. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067265The parasitic dynamics of shaking force balanced mechanisms; a frequency domain analysis (2025)Precision engineering, 94, 191-203. de Jong, J. J., Spanjer, S. T. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precisioneng.2025.02.019Getting to grips with produce (2025)Mikroniek, 66(2), 11-15. de Jong, J., Okken, B., Jonker, M., Dwarshuis, K. & Brouwer, D.

2024

Design of a Hollow Flexible Hinge for an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (2024)In 48th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR). Article 143642 (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference; Vol. 7). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Kamphof, W. E., Nijenhuis, M., Kragt, J. W., Lewińska-Maresca, M. A. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-143642A compact & efficient ReBCO actuator (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Applied superconductivity conference, ASC 2024. Verbruggen, W., Dhallé, M. M. J., Santos Tomás, G. S., Kario, A. U., van Ginkel, K., Dwarshuis, K., Boersma, R., van Gorcum, M., Neut, M., van Oort, H., Brouwer, D. M. & Kisteman, A.Mitigating friction induced limit cycles by an intermediate flexure stage (2024)In Proceedings of the 24th international conference of the european society for precision engineering and nanotechnology (pp. 445-448). de Jong, J., Fix, J. & Brouwer, D. M.Automatic kinematic alignment of flexures in parallel mechanisms (2024)In Proceedings of the ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE2024. Article v007t07a012. Piening, P., Nijenhuis, M., Aarts, R. G. K. M. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-142820Flexure hinge design and optimization for compact anthropomorphic grippers made via metal additive manufacturing (2024)Journal of mechanical design, 146(1). Article 015001. Tschiersky, M., de Jong, J. J. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063362T-Flex ELC: A Flexure-Based Hexapod with Economical Actuation, Sensing and Kinematics (2024)In Proceedings of the 39th ASPE Annual Meeting. Uitbeijerse, J., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.

2023

Derivation of a superelement with deformable interfaces – applied to model flexure joint (2023)Multibody system dynamics, 59, 485-508. Dwarshuis, K., Ellenbroek, M., Aarts, R. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-023-09914-8Numerical Optimization of Underactuated Flexure-Based Grippers (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2023. Okken, B., Dekker, J. P., de Jong, J. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2023-116752Efficient Computation of Large Deformation of Spatial Flexure-Based Mechanisms in Design Optimizations (2023)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 15(2). Article 021011 . Dwarshuis, K., Aarts, R., Ellenbroek, M. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054730Design of a redimensionable and economic flexure-based 6-DOF manipulator demonstrator (2023)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Koers, T. M.Beams with a Varying Cross Section in the Generalized Strain Formulation for Flexure Modeling (2023)Journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, 18(3), 1-14. Article 031001. Dwarshuis, K., Aarts, R., Ellenbroek, M. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056482T-Flex LC: A Flexure-Based Hexapod with a Simplified Kinematic Structure (2023)In Proceedings - ASPE 2023 Annual Meeting (pp. 99-102). American Society for Precision Engineering. Koers, T. M., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.

2022

Beam-based analysis of flexure mechanisms: Increasing computational efficiency, accuracy and design freedom (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Dwarshuis, K.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554831A multinode superelement in the generalized strain formulation (2022)Multibody system dynamics, 56, 367-399. Dwarshuis, K., Ellenbroek, M., Aarts, R. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-022-09850-zA Flexure-Based Linear Guide With Torsion Reinforcement Structures (2022)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 14(3). Article 031013. Rommers, J., Naves, M., Brouwer, D. M. & Herder, J. L.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052971Alleviating stress concentrations by constant curvature flexure mechanisms (2022)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 22nd International Conference & Exhibition, EUSPEN 2022. de Jong, J. J. & Brouwer, D. M.Gravity Balancing Flexure Spring Mechanisms for Shoulder Support in Assistive Orthoses (2022)IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 4(2), 448-459. Tschiersky, M., Hekman, E. E. G., Herder, J. L. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2022.3155293A massively overconstrained and statically balanced flexure mechanism for a 20 kN load capacity (2022)In Proceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting (pp. 98-101). American Society for Precision Engineering. de Jong, J. J., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.High torsion stiffness leafspring flexure element using distributed warping constraints (2022)In European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings - 22nd International Conference and Exhibition, EUSPEN 2022 (pp. 119-122). EUSPEN. Nijenhuis, M., Naves, M. & Brouwer, D.

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