Flexures are bearings that allow motion by bending load elements such as beams. The arrangment of beams can be designed to be compliant in its degree(s) of freedom (DOF), but relatively stiff in its degree(s) of constraint (DOC).

What does a flexure do?

Flexures are a design feature used by design engineers (usually mechanical engineers) for providing adjustment or compliance in a design.

What is a flexure hinge?

A flexure hinge is an innovative engineering solution for providing relative motion between two adjacent stiff members by the elastic deformation of an arbitrary shaped flexible connector. In the literature, modeling of compliant mechanisms incorporating flexure hinges is mainly focused on linear methods.