Pneumatic artificial rubber muscle using shape-memory polymer sheet with embedded electrical heating wire

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Takashima, Kazuto ^a,b   Sugitani, Kazuhiro ^a   Morimoto, Naohiro ^a   Sakaguchi, Seiya ^a   Noritsugu, Toshiro ^c   Mukai, Toshiharu ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c TSUYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

glass transition temperature; Joule heat; pneumatic rubber muscle; shape fixity; shape recovery; shape memory polymer

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BENDING TESTS; ELECTRIC HEATING; GLASS; HEATING; JOULE HEATING; MUSCLE; PLASTICS; PNEUMATICS; POLYMERS; RUBBER; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE TESTING; WIRE;

BENDING DISPLACEMENT; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICAL HEATING; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL RUBBER MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC RUBBER MUSCLES; SHAPE FIXITY; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; SHAPE RECOVERY;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 84911376041     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/12/125005     Document Type: Article

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