Maximum energy-efficiency compliant mechanism design for piezoelectric stack actuators

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Aerospace Division (Publication) AD

Volumn 68, Issue , 2003, Pages 53-61

  Abdalla, Mostafa M ^a   Frecker, Mary ^b   Gürdal, Zafer ^a   Johnson, Terrence ^b   Lindner, Douglas K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 1842612385     PISSN: 07334230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2003-41509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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