Performance comparison and modeling of PZN, PMN, and PZT stacked actuators in a levered flexure mechanism

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 842-848

  Woody, Shane C ^a   Smith, Stuart T ^b  

^a InstituTech Inc   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STIFFNESS;

FRACTIONAL LOSS OF MOTION; KINETIC ENERGY EQUATION; LAGRANGE EQUATION; LEVERED FLEXURE MECHANISM; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR; POTENTIAL ENERGY EQUATION; ROTATIONAL STIFFNESS;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 2042472838     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1666982     Document Type: Article

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