Energy minimization for self-organized structure formation and actuation
- An approach for creating complex structures with embedded actuation in planar manufacturing steps is presented. Self-organization and energy minimization are central to this approach, illustrated with a model based on minimization of the hyperelastic free energy strain function of a stretched elastomer and the bending elastic energy of a plastic frame. A tulip-shaped gripper structure illustrates the technological potential of the approach. Advantages are simplicity of manufacture, complexity of final structures, and the ease with which any electroactive material can be exploited as means of actuation. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
| Author details: | Guggi Kofod, Werner WirgesORCiD, Mika Paajanen, Siegfried BauerGND |
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| URL: | http://apl.aip.org/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2695785 |
| ISSN: | 0003-6951 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2007 |
| Publication year: | 2007 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
| Source: | Applied physics letters. - ISSN 0003-6951. - 90 (2007), 8, Art. 081916 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik |
