CRMR

Hacettepe University

Research Area

Our research area is the analysis and design of rigid and compliant mechanisms. However, we especially focused on the design of compliant mechanisms. We can analyze compliant mechanisms by FEA and by building a test setup in our laboratory.

Patents & Registrations

Engin Tanık, Raşit Karakuş, "A compliant wiper mechanism" 2013-06206 (Patent in TPI). This design is awarded with the Special Prize (Best Academic Invention) in recognition of excellent and creative efforts to invent, at the Istanbul International Inventions Fair (2016) by TPI.

Journal Publications (under SCI & SCI-E coverage):

Çağıl Merve Tanık, Engin Tanık, Yiğit Yazıcıoğlu, Volkan Parlaktaş, "On the analysis and design of a fully compliant large stroke slider-crank (rocker) mechanism, 11, (2020) 29–38

Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, Nahit Babaarslan, Göktuğ Çalık," The Design and Manufacturing Process of an Electric Sport Car (EVT S1) Chassis", I. Journal of Science and Technology", Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, doi: 10.1007/s40997-019-00328-6

Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, Çağıl Merve Tanık, "On the design of a novel fully compliant spherical four-bar mechanism", Advances in Mechanical Engineering, (2019) 11(9) 1–12

Raşit Karakuş, Engin Tanık, "Novel compliant wiper mechanism", Mechanical Sciences, 9 (2018) 327–336

Volkan Parlaktaş, "On the synthesis of a geared adjustable stroke mechanism", Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 12 (2018) No.2 p. JAMDSM0062

Engin Tanık, "Analysis and design of an underactuated compliant five-bar mechanism", Mechanism and Machine Theory, 102 (2016) 123-134

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, "On the analysis of double wishbone suspension regarding steering input and anti-dive/lift effect", Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 10 (2016) No.2 p. JAMDSM0032

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, "Design of a very light L7e electric vehicle prototype", International Journal of Automotive Technology, 16 (2015) No. 6 997−1005

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, "On the analysis of double wishbone suspension", Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 9 (2015) No.3 p. JAMDSM0037

Çağıl Merve Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, Suat Kadıoğlu, "Steel compliant Cardan universal joint", Mechanism and Machine Theory, 92 (2015) 171-183

Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, "A Novel design method for underactuated variable oscillation mechanisms", Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 9 (2015) No.1 p. JAMDSM0009

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, "Fully compliant spatial four-bar mechanism", Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, Vol. 9 (2015) No. 1 p. JAMDSM0002

Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, "Single piece compliant spatial slider-crank mechanism", Mechanism and Machine Theory, 81 (2014) 1-10

Volkan Parlaktaş, "Spatial Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism", Mechanism and Machine Theory, 67 (2013) 152-165

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, ”Compliant cardan universal joint”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 134 (2012) 021011

Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, ”Partially compliant spatial slider-crank (RSSP) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46 (2011) 1707–1718

Engin Tanık, ”Transmission angle in compliant slider-crank mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46 (2011) 1623–1632

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, “A new type of compliant spatial four-bar (RSSR) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46(2011) 593–606

Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, “Analysis and design of a compliant variable stroke mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1385–1394

Volkan Parlaktaş, Eres Söylemez, Engin Tanık, “On the synthesis of a geared four-bar mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1142–1152

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, "Variable Structure Mechanisms Design", The Ninth IFToMM International Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Bucharest, Romania, September 1-4, 2005

Eres Söylemez, Volkan Parlaktaş, "Use of Spatial Four-Bar Mechanism for the Synthesis of Mechanisms with Large Dwell", Proceedings IFToMM on 11th Congress in Mechanisms and Machine Science, April 2004, Tianjin (China), pp.1103-1107.

Videos of some of our studies:

Compliant Wiper Mechanism

(This is the first compliant wiper mecahanism in literature whose robustness is verified)