Pre-stressed Curved Actuators: Characterization and Modeling of their Piezoelectric Behavior

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5053, Issue , 2003, Pages 423-435

  Mossi, Karla ^a   Ounaies, Zoubeida ^a   Smith, Ralph ^b   Ball, Brian ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement performance; Lipca; Piezoelectric actuators; Thunder

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PRESTRESSING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0242442004     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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