Validation of high displacement piezoelectric actuator finite element models

NASA Technical Memorandum

Volumn , Issue 210309, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Taleghani, Barmac ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; ANSYS ; Finite element; NASTRAN ; Piezoelectric; THUNDER

Indexed keywords

EID: 13344281038     PISSN: 04999320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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