Design, prototyping and computer simulations of a novel large bending actuator made with a shape memory alloy contractile wire

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 214-221

  Wang, Guoping ^a   Shahinpoor, Mohsen ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

BENDING ACTUATORS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 0031121305     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/6/2/011     Document Type: Article

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