FEA of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures as a tool for biomimetic design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7287, Issue , 2009, Pages

  O'Brien, Benjamin ^a   Gisby, Todd ^a   Calius, Emilio ^b   Xie, Shane ^c   Anderson, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Dielectric elastomer; Finite element analysis; Minimum energy structure; Self sensing

Indexed keywords

BENDING ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETIC DESIGN; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CIRCUIT FABRICATION; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; LOAD DYNAMICS; MEMBRANE ELEMENTS; MINIMUM ENERGY STRUCTURE; MINIMUM-ENERGY STRUCTURES; PHYSICAL CONTACTS; RAPID DESIGN; SEA CREATURES; SELF-SENSING; SIMULATION TIME; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS;

ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETICS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTICS; RUBBER;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 69849099851     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.815818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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