FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND FABRICATION OF AN SMA-SMP SHAPE MEMORY COMPOSITE ACTUATOR
Shape memory alloys and polymers have been extensively researched recently because of their unique ability to recover large deformations. Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are able to recover large deformations compared to shape memory alloys (SMAs), although SMAs have higher strength and are able to gen...
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UKnowledge
2014
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/me_etds/38 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=me_etds |