Citation:
Dibakar Bandopadhya and James Njuguna, Estimation of bending resistance of ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) actuator following variable parameters pseudo-rigid body model. Materials Letters, Volume 63, Issues 9–10, 15 April 2009, Pages 745-747
Abstract:
In this article bending resistance of IPMC has been estimated following a newly
proposed variable parameters pseudo-rigid body model. First an experiment is
conducted to study the voltage versus bending characteristics of IPMC and based
on the experimental data the IPMC has been modeled through the proposed
technique. Simulation has been performed and estimation of bending resistance
has been made based on experimental results. It is observed that bending
resistance of IPMC increases with input voltages although the changes remain
insignificant after certain range. (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
