%0 Journal Article %T Pseudo %A Qi-Ping Xu %A Qian Li %A Yue-Qing Yu %J Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science %@ 2041-2983 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0954406217707547 %X An intensive study on the dynamic modeling and analysis of compliant mechanisms is presented in this paper based on the pseudo-rigid-body model. The pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model with single degree-of-freedom is proposed at first and the dynamic equation of the 1R pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model for a flexural beam is presented briefly. The pseudo-rigid-body dynamic models with multi-degrees-of-freedom are then derived in detail. The dynamic equations of the 2R pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model and 3R pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model for the flexural beams are obtained using Lagrange equation. Numerical investigations on the natural frequencies and dynamic responses of the three pseudo-rigid-body dynamic models are made. The effectiveness and superiority of the pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model has been shown by comparing with the finite element analysis method. An example of a compliant parallel-guiding mechanism is presented to investigate the dynamic behavior of the mechanism using the 2R pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model %K Compliant mechanism %K pseudo-rigid-body model %K pseudo-rigid-body dynamic model %K degree-of-freedom %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0954406217707547