A comprehensive review of porosity origin, microstructure peculiarities, fabrication methods,
and mathematical models, as well as systematic experimental data for different porous …

A comprehensive review of microstructure peculiarities, mathematical models, methods of
fabrication and measurements, as well as systematic experimental data for different types of …

Electroactive Polymer Actuators as Arti cial Muscles Page 1 213 6 Electroactive Polymer
Actuators as Artificial Muscles Yoseph Bar-Cohen California Institute of Technology …

Future robots are expected to work closely and interact safely with real-world objects and
humans alike. Sense of touch is important in this context, as it helps estimate properties such …

The elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric constants of four piezoelectric materials, including
polyvinylidene fluoride, vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer, PZT/epoxy 1-3 …

An equivalent circuit model for the unloaded piezoelectric vibrator in the thickness mode is
presented. The model contains two branches, the motional branch and the static branch, like …

Piezoelectric polymers are widely used in sensor and actuator applications. Compared to
ceramic materials, they have the advantage of mechanical flexibility and an acoustic …

An automatic iterative method by which material constants of piezoelectric ceramics may be
determined in complex form is described. Measurements are reported on samples with …

Implementing piezoelectric materials as actuators, vibrators, resonators, and transducers
requires the availability of a properties database and scaling laws to allow the actuator or …

The electromechanical coupling coefficient, the piezoelectric constant, the elastic
compliance constant and the mechanical quality factor for a poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) plate …