Design of a Passive, Shear-Based Rotary Hydraulic Damper for Single-Axis Prosthetic Knees

With over 30 million people worldwide in need of assistive devices, there is a great need for low-cost, high performance prosthetic technologies in the developing world. A majority of the hydraulic dampers used in prosthetic knee designs are highly specialized, expensive, require regular maintenance...

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Main Authors: Major, Matthew J., Arelekatti, Murthy, Petelina, Nina T., Johnson, William Brett, Winter, Amos G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120009
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