Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators as artificial muscles : reality, potential, and challenges /

In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promis...

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Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: Bar-Cohen, Yoseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Press, [2004]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:SPIE monograph ; PM136.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promising advances in EAP that have occurred in electric EAP, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, carbon nanotube actuators, and more.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 765 pages) : illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781615837236
161583723X
9780819481122
0819481122