Modeling and characterization of active fiber composites

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5390, Issue , 2004, Pages 78-88

  Belloli, Alberto ^a,c   Castelli, Benedetto ^a   Kornmann, Xavier ^b   Huber, Christian ^b   Ermanni, Paolo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Mechanical Systems (IMES)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONTACT ANGLE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; STRAIN;

ACTIVE FIBER COMPOSITES (AFC); PIEZOCERAMIC FIBERS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE) GEOMETRY; WORK CYCLE HYSTERESIS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 10044231827     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.539871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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