Beams with controllable flexural stiffness

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6525, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gandhi, Farhan ^a   Kang, Sang Guk ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive passive; Controllable stiffness; Semi active; Variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; POLYMERS;

ADAPTIVE-PASSIVE; CONTROLLABLE STIFFNESS; SEMI ACTIVE; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 35549012403     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.716038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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