Development and testing of a hinge/actuator incorporating Elastic Memory Composites

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 857-871

  Francis, Will ^a   Lake, M S ^a   Mallick, Kaushik ^a   Freebury, Gregg E ^b   Maji, Arup ^c  

^a Composite Technology Devmt Inc ^*  (United States)

^b G Edward Engineering   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; HINGES; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; POLYMERS; RADIATORS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SPACECRAFT;

DEPLOYABLE SPACE STRUCTURES; ELASTIC MEMORY COMPOSITES; REFLECTORS; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0042513622     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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