Mechanical bistability in liquid crystal elastomer-wire composite actuators

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Y Y ^a   Biggins, J ^a   Ji, Y ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION STROKES; BISTABLES; COMPOSITE ACTUATOR; COMPOSITE COMBINING; CRITICAL ANGLES; DOUBLE LAYERS; ENERGY MINIMA; HEATING WIRE; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; MATRIX; MECHANICAL BI-STABILITY; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; POWER EFFICIENCY; RESPONSE TIME; RUBBERY MATRICES; SIDE-CHAIN;

ACTUATORS; DESIGN; LIQUID CRYSTALS; RUBBER;

WIRE;

EID: 77952405686     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3374474     Document Type: Article

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