Bucky gel actuator displacement: Experiment and model

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ghamsari, A K ^a,b   Jin, Y ^b   Zegeye, E ^a,b   Woldesenbet, E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISPLACEMENT; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; ELECTROACTIVE; INPUT PARAMETER; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT; MORPHING; THICKNESS RATIO; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84873350564     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/2/025034     Document Type: Article

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