"Why not just bite the bullet and say, 'OK, let's do a completely different way of funding' rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation".
At some big companies, workers staged rallies to attack executives for making the switch, forcing some companies, most notably I.B.M., to back down or offer employees a choice of keeping their old pension benefits.
The switch forced England Netball to refund ticket-holders at a cost of at least £50,000 and meant Monday's game took place in front of only family and friends of the players.
As The Hollywood Reporter revealed back in October, the last-minute switch forced the "50 Shades of Grey" production start-date to shift from November to Dec. 2 of this year.
The switch forced Trout, who seemed to benefit from his move to the second spot on April 11 -- he entered Saturday with a.293 average, 10 homers and 38 RBIs -- back to the leadoff spot and moved leadoff man Erick Aybar to eighth.
This design flexibility is exploited here for the design of a bistable mechanism with nearly equal switching forces in the forward and backward directions.
A compliant bistable mechanism with a crab-like structure for nearly equal switching forces in the forward and backward directions is developed.
However, for a large amount of pre-shaped bistable mechanisms, one or two specific bistable characteristics such as two switching forces, stroke and bistable index parameter cannot fulfill the special application requirements.
With the accurate mechanical analysis of MEMS bistable mechanisms, a novel optimization based method for designing specific bistable characteristic is proposed by modifying the beam local segment's geometry for optimizing the bistable index parameter and two switching forces respectively.
Such a mechanism can be applied in nonvolatile memory devices with two logical levels "1" and "0" assigned to the two stable states which are separated by nearly equal switching forces in back and forth directions.
