Spring constant of fibre-reinforced plastics circular springs embedded with nickel-titanium alloy wire

Composite Structures

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 319-328

  Wong, W H ^a   Tse, P C ^a   Lau, K J ^a   Ng, Y F ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Composite springs; Shape memory alloy; Spring stiffness

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NICKEL ALLOYS; STIFFNESS;

COMPOSITE RINGS; SPRING RATES;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

ALLOY; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; PLASTIC; SHAPE MEMORY MATERIAL; STIFFNESS; WIRE;

EID: 3042545313     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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