Bill Armstrong memorial session: Elastic modulus and strain recovery testing of variable stiffness composites for structural reconfiguration applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6526, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McKnight, Geoff ^a   Doty, Robert ^a   Herrera, Guillermo ^a   Henry, Chris ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphing; Reconfigurable surface; Segmented composite; Shape memory polymer; Strain recovery; Variable stiffness materials

Indexed keywords

RECONFIGURABLE SURFACES; SEGMENTED COMPOSITES; STRAIN RECOVERY; VARIABLE STIFFNESS MATERIALS;

ELASTIC MODULI; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 35548973008     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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