Rubber to rigid, clamped to undamped: Toward composite materials with wide-range controllable stiffness and damping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5388, Issue , 2004, Pages 372-386

  Kornbluh, Roy ^a   Prahlad, Harsha ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^a   Stanford, Scott ^a   Rosenthal, Marcus ^a   Von Guggenberg, Philip ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroactive polymers; Electrorheological; Magnetorheological; Mechanical impedance; Meta material; Morphing; Multifunctional material; Piezoelectric; Shape memory; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STIFFNESS; VIBRATION CONTROL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ELECTRORHEOLOGY; MAGNETORHEOLOGY; META-MATERIALS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 8844246820     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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