Active position control of a shape memory alloy wire actuated composite beam

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 711-716

  Song, Gangbing ^a   Kelly, Brian ^b   Agrawal, Brij N ^b  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; POSITION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE POSITION CONTROL; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRES; THERMO-DISTORTION COMPENSATION;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0034296026     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/9/5/316     Document Type: Article

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