Surface control of cold hibernated elastic memory self-deployable structure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6167, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sokolowski, Witold ^a   Ghaffarian, Reza ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass transition temperature Tg; Open cellular structures; Piezoelectric actuator; Shape memory polymers

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POLYMERS; STRAIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE TG; OPEN CELLULAR STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 33745830862     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.657485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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