Study on core free rolled actuator based on soft dielectric EAP

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6927, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kovacs, Gabor ^a   Ha, Soon Mok ^b   Michel, Silvain ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^c   Pei, Qibing ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive structures; Dielectric elastomers; Electroactive polymers; Shell like actuators; Soft dielectric EAP

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS; MULTILAYER ACTUATOR SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 44349177603     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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