Experimental investigations of the large deflection capabilities of a compliant parallel mechanism actuated by shape memory alloy wires

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Sreekumar, M ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a   Singaperumal, M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ACTUATORS; ALLOYS; APPLICATIONS; CALIBRATION; CERIUM ALLOYS; EXPERIMENTS; GAGES; MECHANISMS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SENSORS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WIRE;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CALIBRATION CURVES; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; COUPLED EFFECTS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; ELASTICA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FORCE SENSORS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; LARGE DEFLECTIONS; MEMS ACCELEROMETERS; MOVING PLATFORMS; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; RELATIVE ERRORS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRES; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS; SMA ACTUATORS; SMA WIRES; STRAIN GAUGES; SUPERELASTIC; TILT ANGLES;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 58149478375     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/17/6/065025     Document Type: Article

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