...Matthew Santer The design and analysis of a fully actuated adaptive bistable structure is presented. This structure releases energy at a high frequency, which in consequence causes it to jump. Such structures have application as the basis for multistable adaptive systems. The dynamic transition...

...Guillermo Franco; Raimondo Betti; Richard W. Longman This work tackles the problem of global identifiability of an undamped, shear-type, N degrees of freedom linear structural system under forced excitation without any prior knowledge of its mass or stiffness distributions. Three actuator/sensor...

.... An exploration of the behavior of an actuator composed of a deformable, electroactive polymer is presented based on the formulation of the paper. 06 04 2004 26 08 2004 dielectric polarisation actuators electrostatics electrostriction electrodes mechanical energy storage piezoelectricity...

...W. Liu, Research Assistant; C. R. Rahn, Professor A McKibben actuator consists of an internally pressurized elastic cylindrical tube covered by a shell braided with two families of inextensible fibers woven at equal and opposite angles to the longitudinal axis. Increasing internal pressure causes...