Tag: Actuators

January 5, 2025

Piezoelectric Actuators

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Free Download Joshua E. Segel, "Piezoelectric Actuators "
English | ISBN: 161324181X | 2012 | 144 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Piezoelectric actuators are simple structures with compact sizes that provide quick and precise responses to an electrical stimulus. The response of the piezoelectric actuator can be a mechanical displacement or a blocking force with the magnitude determined by the structure’s geometry and the electromechanical properties of the materials used. This book presents topical research in the study of piezoelectric actuators. Topics discussed include thick-film piezoelectric actuators prepared by screen-printing; pressure control of vehicle ABS using piezoactuator-based valve modulators; ultrasonic actuators based on the Langevin transducer; the dynamics of hinged-hinged beam using piezoelectric absorbers and modelling and control of piezoelectric actuator systems.

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December 9, 2024

Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the MicroNano-Scale Characterization, Control, and Applications

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Free Download Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale: Characterization, Control, and Applications By Micky Rakotondrabe, Mohammad Al Janaideh (auth.), Micky Rakotondrabe (eds.)
2013 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 1461466830 | PDF | 8 MB
Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale: Characterization, Control, and Applications gives a state of the art of emerging techniques to the characterization and control of actuators based on smart materials working at the micro/nano scale. The book aims to characterize some commonly used structures based on piezoelectric and electroactive polymeric actuators and also focuses on various and emerging techniques employed to control them. This book also includes two of the most emerging topics and applications: nanorobotics and cells micro/nano-manipulation.

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September 15, 2024

Silicon Sensors and Actuators The Feynman Roadmap

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Free Download Benedetto Vigna, Paolo Ferrari, Flavio Francesco Villa, "Silicon Sensors and Actuators: The Feynman Roadmap"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030801349, 3030801373 | PDF | pages: 987 | 40.4 mb
This book thoroughly reviews the present knowledge on silicon micromechanical transducers and addresses emerging and future technology challenges. Readers will acquire a solid theoretical and practical background that will allow them to analyze the key performance aspects of devices, critically judge a fabrication process, and then conceive and design new ones for future applications. Envisioning a future complex versatile microsystem, the authors take inspiration from Richard Feynman’s visionary talk "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom" to propose that the time has come to see silicon sensors as part of a "Feynman Roadmap" instead of the "More-than-Moore" technology roadmap. The sharing of the author’s industrially proven track record of development, design, and manufacturing, along with their visionary approach to the technology, will allow readers to jump ahead in their understanding of the core of the topic in a very effective way. Students, researchers, engineers, and technologists involved in silicon-based sensor and actuator research and development will find a wealth of useful and groundbreaking information in this book.

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April 25, 2024

Artificial Muscle Actuators Using Electroactive Polymers

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Free Download Pietro Vincenzini, "Artificial Muscle Actuators Using Electroactive Polymers "
English | ISBN: 3908158273 | 2009 | 216 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The 27 peer-reviewed papers collected here together offer a plenitude of up-to-date information on "Artificial Muscle Actuators using Electroactive Polymers". The papers are conveniently arranged into the 1: Materials; 2: Analysis, physical mechanisms and characterization; 3: Devices and applications. This special volume has also been published online in the series, "Advances in Science and Technology" Vol. 61.

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