Preliminary investigation of a balloon-shape actuator based on electroactive elastomers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Soleimani, Maryam ^a   Menon, Carlo ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION LOADS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROACTIVE; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT RELATIONSHIPS; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MANUFACTURING PROCEDURE; SPHERICAL SHAPE;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 77949887826     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/4/047001     Document Type: Article

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