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♦ Guimin Chen, Xiaodong Shao and Xinbo Huang. A new generalized model for elliptical arc flexure hinges. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2008, 79(9): 095103. Available Online: http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/79/095103 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen and Larry L. Howell. Two general solutions of torsional compliance for variable rectangular cross-section hinges in compliant mechanisms. Precision Engineering, 2009, 33(3): 268-274. Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precisioneng.2008.08.001 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Daniel L. Wilcox, and Larry L. Howell. Fully compliant double tensural tristable micromechanisms (FTTM). Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2009, 19(2): 025011. Available Online: http://stacks.iop.org/0960-1317/19/025011 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Xiaoyuan Liu, Hongwei Gao and Jianyuan Jia. A generalized model for conic flexure hinges. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2009, 80(5): 055106. Available Online: http://link.aip.org/link/?RSINAK/80/055106/1 pdf  m-Code

♦ Joseph O. Jacobsen, Guimin Chen, Larry L. Howell and Spencer P. Magleby. Lamina emergent torsion (LET) joint. Mechanism and Machine Theory: 2009, 44(11): 2098-2109. Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.05.015 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Hongwei Gao, and Jianyuan Jia. A 3-DOF Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Tension-Based Compliant Bistable Mechanisms. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2010, 23(2): 149-153.

♦ Guimin Chen, Quentin T. Aten, Larry L. Howell and Brian D. Jensen. A tristable mechanism configuration employing orthogonal compliant mechanisms. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, ASME Transactions, 2010, 2(1): 014501.Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4000529 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Botao Xiong and Xinbo Huang. Finding the optimal characteristic parameters for 3R pseudo-rigid-body model using an improved particle swarm optimizer. Precision Engineering, 2011, 35 (3): 505-511. Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precisioneng.2011.02.006 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Yanjie Gou, and Aimei Zhang. Synthesis of compliant multistable mechanisms through use of a single bistable compliant mechanism. Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Transactions: 2011, 133 (8): 081007. Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4004543 pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yunlei Du. Elliptical-arc-fillet flexure hinges: towards a generalized model for most commonly used flexure hinges. Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Transactions: 2011, 133 (8): 081002. Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4004441 pdf  m-Code

♦ Guimin Chen and Shouyin Zhang. Fully-Compliant Statically-Balanced Mechanisms without Prestressing Assembly: Concepts and Case Studies. Mechanical Sciences: 2011, 2(2): 169-174. Available Online: http://www.mech-sci.net/2/169/2011/ms-2-169-2011.pdf

♦ DuanlingLi, Zhonghai Zhang, Guimin Chen. Structure synthesis of compliant me[ant]tamorphic mechanisms based on adjacency matrix operations. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2011, 24(4): 522-528. Available Online: http://www.cjmenet.com/xuebaoenglish/papersed/allpapered/abstractall/zyy2011_4_522.htm 

♦ Guimin Chen and Yunlei Du. Double-Young Tristable Mechanisms (DYTMs). Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, ASME Transactions, 2013, 5(1): 011007. Available online: http://asmedl.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=JMROA6&Volume=5&Issue=1

♦ Aimei Zhang and Guimin Chen. A Comprehensive Elliptic Integral Solution to the Large Deflection Problems of Thin Beams in Compliant Mechanisms. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, ASME Transactions, 2013, 5: 021006. Available online: http://mechanismsrobotics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1673590  pdf  m-Code

♦ Guimin Chen, Shouyin Zhang and Geng Li. Multistable Behaviors of Compliant Sarrus Mechanisms.Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, ASME Transactions, 2013, 5: 021005. Available online: http://mechanismsrobotics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1673589

♦ Guimin Chen, Jialu Wang, and Xiaoyuan Liu. Generalized Equations for Estimating Stress Concentration Factors of Various Notch Flexure Hinges. Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Transactions, 2014, 136(3): 031009  pdf

♦ Guimin Chen and Aimei Zhang. Accuracy Evaluation of PRBM for Predicting Kinetostatic Behavior of Flexible Segments in Compliant Mechanisms. Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA: DETC2011-47117. pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Yanjie Gou and Aimei Zhang. Achieving multistability through use of a single bistable compliant mechanism. Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 15-18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: DETC2010-28388.

♦ Guimin Chen, Bo Hu and Yaochu Deng. Light-beam stabilizing control in long-distance transmission systems subject to mechanical vibrations. Proceeding of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2010), Xi’an, China, August 4-7, 2010: 1724-1727 (ICMA10-314). pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Yanjie Gou and Liangliang Yang. Research on Multistable Compliant Mechanisms: The State of the Art. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing (ICFDM 2010), July 17~19, 2010, Changsha, China: ICFDM2010-7_1. pdf

♦ Shouyin Zhang and Guimin Chen*.Design of Compliant Bistable Mechanism for Rear Trunk Lid of Cars. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (4th ICIRA), Dec. 6-8, 2011, Aachen, Germany: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Vol. 7101, 291-299.  pdf

♦ Guimin Chen, Yi Liu and Yanjie Gou. A Compliant 5-bar Tristable Mechanism Utilizing me[ant]tamorphic Transformation. Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robotics (2th ReMAR), Jul. 8-10, 2012, Tianjin, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

♦ Guimin Chen and Shouyin Zhang. Multistability of Compliant Sarrus Mechanisms. Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 12-15, 2012, Chicago, USA: DETC2012-70238 (Accepted) 

♦ Aimei Zhang and Guimin Chen. A comprehensive elliptic integral solution to the large deflection problem in compliant mechanisms. Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 12-15, 2012, Chicago, USA: DETC2012-70239 (Accepted) 

♦ Managing Library Contributor: "Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms", John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

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