Fish-like propulsion of an airship with planar membrane dielectric elastomer actuators

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Jordi, C ^a,b   Michel, S ^a   Fink, E ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUDAL FINS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; FLIGHT TRIALS; INFLATED STRUCTURES; LIGHT WEIGHT; PLANAR MEMBRANES; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

BIOMIMETICS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FISH; PROPULSION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AIRSHIPS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FISH; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FISHES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 77952929002     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/2/026007     Document Type: Article

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