Application of Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators to the Construction of Gas Valves

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5054, Issue , 2003, Pages 309-319

  Bouchilloux, P ^a   Le Letty, R ^b   Lhermet, N ^b   Patient, G ^b   Claeyssen, F ^b   Lang, M ^c  

^a Adaptronics Inc   (United States)

^b ALTAIR ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Optimization; Piezoelectric actuation; Proportional valves

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; PROPORTIONAL VALVES;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0242467991     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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