Dynamic electromechanical modeling of dielectric elastomer actuators with metallic electrodes

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 960-967

  Sarban, Rahimullah ^a   Lassen, Benny ^b   Willatzen, Morten ^b  

^a DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer actuator; frequency response; spring dashpot networks; system modeling

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT MODEL; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELING; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PARTS; METALLIC ELECTRODES; MODEL RESULTS; STANDARD METHOD; SYSTEM MODELING; VISCOELASTIC MECHANICAL MODEL;

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS;

EID: 84865349931     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2150239     Document Type: Article

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