Electro-mechanical analysis of a biased dielectric EAP actuator

Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 2009, SMASIS2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 289-297

  York, Alexander ^a   Hodgins, Micah ^a   Seelecke, Stefan ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT VOLTAGE; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; ELECTROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FULLY-COUPLED; LIGHT WEIGHT; OPERATING CONDITION; PUMPING SYSTEMS; QUASI-STATIC; RATE-DEPENDENT MATERIALS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; VISCOELASTIC EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 77953721602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/SMASIS2009-1441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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