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...
Main Authors: | Major, Matthew J., Arelekatti, Murthy, Petelina, Nina T., Johnson, William Brett, Winter, Amos G. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Format: | Article |
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2019
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120009 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8358-7366 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-0889 |
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