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67
Citations
16209
World Ranking
465
National Ranking
215

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Larry L. Howell is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of engineering. Their research spans a range of subfields with significant focus on mechanical engineering, civil and structural engineering, control and systems engineering, aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Their work encompasses several key research topics including:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Piezoelectric Actuators and Control
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Larry L. Howell's publications have appeared in numerous venues, showing a presence in reputable journals such as:

  • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
  • Journal of Mechanical Design
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • ASME Open Journal of Engineering
  • IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Larry L. Howell include:

  • Origami Antennas (2021), IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation
  • A Foldable and Reconfigurable Monolithic Reflectarray for Space Applications (2020), IEEE Access
  • Rigidly Foldable Thick Origami Using Designed-Offset Linkages (2020), Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
  • A Foldable Reflectarray on a Hexagonal Twist Origami Structure (2021), IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation
  • Zero Torque Compliant Mechanisms Employing Pre-buckled Beams (2020), Journal of Mechanical Design

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Spencer P. Magleby, Collin Ynchausti, Brandon Sargent, Stavros V. Georgakopoulos, and Abdul-Sattar Kaddour.

Larry L. Howell was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2004, an accolade reflecting participation and standing within this professional community.

Best Publications

  • A Method for the Design of Compliant Mechanisms With Small-Length Flexural Pivots

    L. L. Howell;A. Midha

  • Accommodating Thickness in Origami-Based Deployable Arrays

    Shannon A. Zirbel;Robert J. Lang;Mark W. Thomson;Deborah A. Sigel

  • Parametric Deflection Approximations for End-Loaded, Large-Deflection Beams in Compliant Mechanisms

    Larry L. Howell;Ashok Midha

  • Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms: Howell/Handbook

    Larry L. Howell;Spencer P. Magleby;Brian M. Olsen

  • Evaluation of equivalent spring stiffness for use in a pseudo-rigid-body model of large-deflection compliant mechanisms

    Larry L. Howell;Ashok Midha;T. W. Norton

  • Handbook of compliant mechanisms

    Larry L. Howell;Spencer P. Magleby;Brian Mark Olsen

  • A Loop-Closure Theory for the Analysis and Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms

    Larry L. Howell;Ashok Midha

  • Waterbomb base: a symmetric single-vertex bistable origami mechanism

    Brandon H Hanna;Jason M Lund;Robert J Lang;Spencer P Magleby

  • Modeling the thermal behavior of a surface-micromachined linear-displacement thermomechanical microactuator

    Christian D. Lott;Timothy W. McLain;John N. Harb;Larry L. Howell

  • Dynamic Modeling of Compliant Mechanisms Based on the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model

    Yue-Qing Yu;Larry L. Howell;Craig Lusk;Ying Yue

  • On the Nomenclature, Classification, and Abstractions of Compliant Mechanisms

    Ashok Midha;Tony W. Norton;Larry L. Howell

  • Kinetostatic and Dynamic Modeling of Flexure-Based Compliant Mechanisms: A Survey

    Mingxiang Ling;Larry L. Howell;Junyi Cao;Guimin Chen

  • A Review of Thickness-Accommodation Techniques in Origami-Inspired Engineering

    Robert J. Lang;Kyler A. Tolman;Erica B. Crampton;Spencer P. Magleby

  • The modeling of cross-axis flexural pivots

    Brian D. Jensen;Larry L. Howell

  • An Approach to Designing Origami-Adapted Aerospace Mechanisms

    Jessica Morgan;Spencer P. Magleby;Larry L. Howell

  • Lamina Emergent Torsional (LET) Joint

    Joseph O. Jacobsen;Guimin Chen;Larry L. Howell;Spencer P. Magleby

  • Design of two-link, in-plane, bistable compliant micro-mechanisms

    B. D. Jensen;L. L. Howell;L. G. Salmon

  • A self-retracting fully compliant bistable micromechanism

    N.D. Masters;L.L. Howell

  • Rigidly foldable origami gadgets and tessellations.

    Thomas A. Evans;Robert J. Lang;Spencer P. Magleby;Larry L. Howell

  • Lamina Emergent Mechanisms and Their Basic Elements

    Joseph O. Jacobsen;Brian G. Winder;Larry L. Howell;Spencer P. Magleby

  • Theory of mechanisms and machines

    Larry L. Howell;Ashok Midha

Frequent Co-Authors

Spencer P. Magleby
Spencer P. Magleby Brigham Young University
Timothy W. McLain
Timothy W. McLain Brigham Young University
Junyi Cao
Junyi Cao Xi'an Jiaotong University
Aaron R. Hawkins
Aaron R. Hawkins Brigham Young University
Mary Frecker
Mary Frecker Pennsylvania State University
Giovanni Berselli
Giovanni Berselli University of Genoa
Singiresu S. Rao
Singiresu S. Rao University of Miami
Just L. Herder
Just L. Herder Delft University of Technology
Timothy W. Simpson
Timothy W. Simpson Pennsylvania State University
Brent L. Adams
Brent L. Adams Brigham Young University

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