Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Carpi, Federico ^a   Anderson, Iain ^b   Bauer, Siegfried ^c   Frediani, Gabriele ^a   Gallone, Giuseppe ^d   Gei, Massimiliano ^e   Graaf, Christian ^f   Jean Mistral, Claire ^g   Kaal, William ^h   Kofod, Guggi ⁱ   Kollosche, Matthias ^j   Kornbluh, Roy ^k   Lassen, Benny ^l   Matysek, Marc ^m   Michel, Silvain ⁿ   Nowak, Stephan ^o   O'Brien, Benjamin ^p   Pei, Qibing ^q   Pelrine, Ron ^k   Rechenbach, Björn ^l   Rosset, Samuel ^r   Shea, Herbert ^r   more..

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^h FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL DURABILITY AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY LBF   (Germany)

ⁱ InMold Biosystems A/S   (Denmark)

^j UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^k SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^m Continental Corporation ^*  (Germany)

ⁿ SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^o Formerly Baver Material Science AG   (Germany)

^p STRETCHSENSE LTD   (New Zealand)

^q Engineering IV   (United States)

^r EPFL   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

actuator; dielectric elastomer; EAP; electroactive polymer; electromechanically active polymer; standard; transducer

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CHARACTERIZATION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTOMERS; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; STANDARDS; TRANSDUCERS;

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; EAP; ELECTRICAL GENERATORS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROMECHANICALLY ACTIVE POLYMERS; MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84942872246     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/24/10/105025     Document Type: Article

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