Nonlinear analysis of RAINBOW actuator characteristics

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Aimmanee, S ^a   Chutima, S ^a   Hyer, M W ^b  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BLOCKING FORCES; CANTILEVER ACTUATORS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEARITY; LOAD CARRYING; MATERIAL NON-LINEARITY; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUT-OF-PLANE DISPLACEMENT; PASSIVE LAYER; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; QUASI-STATIC ELECTRIC FIELD; RAINBOW ACTUATORS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH-RITZ APPROACHES; RITZ MODELS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; THERMALLY INDUCED DEFORMATIONS; TIP DEFLECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 68549127132     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/4/045002     Document Type: Article

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