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NASA NTRS2004

Preliminary Sizings for an Integrated SME Actuator System for the STAR system

The Star configuration consists of three legs of an aperature of total diameter of 2.5 m diameter. For the purposes of this initial study for actuator requirements, several assumptions were made. For support, we assumed that the membrane was Upilex of a thickness of 0.010 in. thick, and with a modulus of approximately YYY. Upilex was chosen as being relatively commercially available and is compatible with either TiNi or AuCd manufacture. We confined the areas in which we could apply actuators to three strips of length 2.5 meters and width of 0.1 m. This brings the problem to a solution of a strip.

Jardine, A. Peter↗

NASA NTRS1992

Smart materials fabrication and materials for micro-electro-mechanical systems; Symposium Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 28-30, 1992

A conference on the rapidly developing fields of `smart materials' and micro-electro-mechanical systems produced papers in the areas of fabrication and characterization of ferroelectric thin films; polycrystalline silicon; optical, chemical, and biological sensors; thin film shape memory alloys; materials characterization; and alternative materials and applications.

Jardine, A. Peter↗