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Zipping electrostatic actuators operate by bending flexible electrodes using electrostatic forces. This principle allows the use of a wide range of dielectric and conductive materials. Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques can be used to fabricate these a ...

This paper reports on experimental testing that was carried out on a prototype adaptive structure designed to counteract the effect of loading through controlled large shape changes. The prototype is 6.6 m truss equipped with 12 linear actuators which has ...

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Adaptive structures can modify their geometry and internal forces through sensing and mechanical actuation in order to maintain optimal performance under changing actions. Previous work has shown that well-conceived adaptive design strategies achieve subst ...

Adaptive structures modify their geometry and internal forces through sensing and mechanical actuation in order to maintain optimal performance under changing actions. Previous work has shown that well-conceived adaptive design strategies achieve substanti ...

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Tunable plasmonic nanostructures

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Fabrication of zipping electrostatic actuators incorporating inkjet-printed layers

Design and control of a prototype structure that adapts to loading through large shape changes

Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels

Design of structures that adapt to loads through large shape changes

Shape changes through geometric nonlinear control as a strategy for structural adaptation

Minimum energy adaptive structures – All-In-One problem formulation

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Drastic breakdown field reduction in multilayer DEA

Structures that adapt to loads through large shape changes: design and optimization

A vibration control strategy using variable stiffness joints

Port: A Piezoelectric Optical Resonance Tuner

3D monolithic dielectrophoretic actuators and resonators written by femtosecond laser

Progress on femtosecond laser-based system-materials: three-dimensional monolithic electrostatic micro-actuator for optomechanics

Auxetic Metamaterial Simplifies Soft Robot Design

Electrothermal actuation of vanadium dioxide for tunable capacitors and microwave filters with integrated microheaters

Monolithic transparent 3D dielectrophoretic micro-actuator fabricated by femtosecond laser

Advanced sol-gel processing of PZT thin films for piezoelectric MEMS structures

Integrated long-range thermal bimorph actuators for parallelizable bio-AFM applications

Optical Modulators Based on Microfabricated Tilting Flaps Operating at low Actuation Voltages