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- While it is conceivable that this elastic mechanism could be built from a single material, desired performance in structural and flexural regions very different
- structural regions - strong and stiff, flexure - compliant, damped and fatigue resistant
- fabricating with single material would result in compliant structural regions or brittle failure prone flexures
- ideal solution requires varying material properties between different regions of the part.
