Overview
In concept and execution, this book covers the filed 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.Synopsis
Discusses the materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods being employed to develop electroactive polymers that change size and shape when given some voltage or current. The 21 chapters describe the mechanisms of muscle operation and their behavior as actuators, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, computation methods, and progress in creating miniature insect-like robotics that can crawl, swim, or fly. The second edition reports advances in understanding material behavior. Bar-Cohen is a senior research scientist and group leader at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a Fellow of SPIE and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR