Determining the Material Constants from Impedance Resonance in Piezoelectric Stacks
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The recent emergence of EAP materials with large displacement response enabled great potentials for these materials.
Actuator mechanisms that are lightweight, durable, and efficient are needed to support telerobotic requirements for future NASA missions.
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Ion-exchange polymer membrane metallic composites (IPMC) are one of the electroactive polymers (EAP) that were shown to have potential application as actuators.
Electroactive polymers (EAP) are emerging as a new class of actuation materials being considered in a wide range of applications.
For many years, electroactive polymers (EAP) received relatively little attention due to the small number of available materials and their limited actuation capability.
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Efficient actuators that are lightweight, high performance and compact are needed to support telerobotic requirements for future NASA missions.
Ion-exchange membrane metallic composites (IPMC), which were the first reported in 1992, are one of the electroactive materials (EAP) with potential applications as artificial muscle actuators.
In recent years, electroactive polymers (EAP) materials have gained recognition as potential actuators with unique capabilities having the closest performance resemblance to biological muscles.
The parameters of the KLM and Mason's equivalent circuits in the thickness mode are presented to include dielectric, elastic and piezoelectric lines.
Actuators are responsible to the operative capability of manipulation systems and robots. In recent years, electroactive polymers (EAP) have emerged as potential alternative to conventional actuators.