Large effective-strain piezoelectric actuators using nested cellular architecture with exponential strain amplification mechanisms

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 770-782

  Ueda, Jun ^a   Secord, Thomas W ^b   Asada, H Harry ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuators; flexible structures; piezoelectric transducers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION STRUCTURE; BLOCKING FORCES; BROAD APPLICATION; CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DESIGN TRADEOFF; EFFECTIVE STRAIN; HIERARCHICAL CELLULAR STRUCTURES; LARGE EFFECTIVE; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; OUTPUT FORCE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PZT; SMALL STRAINS; STRAIN AMPLIFICATION;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; AMPLIFICATION; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MACHINE DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 77955458797     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2034973     Document Type: Article

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