Minimum weight design of a high authority flexural actuator based on electro-elastomers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1211-1221

  Han, L H ^a   Lu, T J ^a   Evans, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; MULTILAYERS; POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRAIN; YIELD STRESS;

ACTUATION STRAIN; ELECTRO-ELASTOMERS; FLEXURAL ACTUATORS; SPRING WIRES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 5744225839     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/13/5/025     Document Type: Article

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