Bio-Inspired wooden actuators for large scale applications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Rüggeberg, Markus ^a,b   Burgert, Ingo ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BEECH; BUILDING MATERIAL; DRY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HUMIDITY; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; MOISTURE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RESPONSE TIME; SCALE UP; SOLAR RADIATION; SPRUCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING; WOOD; ALGORITHM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84927126860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120718     Document Type: Article

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