Electro-mechanical analysis of a dielectric EAP actuator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7289, Issue , 2009, Pages

  York, Alexander ^a   Seelecke, Stefan ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Dielectric EAP; Experiments

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT VOLTAGE; DIELECTRIC EAP; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; FULLY-COUPLED; LIGHT WEIGHT; PUMPING SYSTEMS; QUASI-STATIC; RATE-DEPENDENT MATERIALS; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 67149106143     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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