Evaluation of dehydration loss and investigation of its effect on bending response of segmented IPMC actuators

International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-200

  Biswal, Dillip Kumar ^a   Bandopadhya, Dibakar ^a   Dwivedy, Santosha Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Dehydration factor; Ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC); Lagrange principle

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DEHYDRATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

BENDING CHARACTERISTICS; FORWARD KINEMATICS; HOMOGENEOUS COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; IONIC POLYMER-METAL COMPOSITE ACTUATORS; LAGRANGE PRINCIPLES; MULTI DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; PRODUCTION METHODS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 79955407367     PISSN: 19475411     EISSN: 1947542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475411.2010.509551     Document Type: Article

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