... compressors design engineering lead compounds membranes microactuators piezoelectric actuators microcompressor piezoelectric membrane axially driven model compression ratio stack actuator PZT lead zirconium titanate High compression ratio microcompressors are inherently useful...

... displacement, b * = t * = 0 . 381 produces maximum blocking force, and b * ≈ 0 . 25 , t * ≈ 0 . 33 produces maximum mechanical energy. 19 05 2010 09 04 2011 15 06 2011 15 06 2011 beams (structures) cantilevers machining microfabrication piezoelectric actuators...

... design parameters during fabrication. The numerical models correlate well to the maximum deflection of the experimental devices. 28 05 2009 17 03 2010 20 05 2010 20 05 2010 design engineering finite element analysis microactuators piezoelectric actuators...

...Roelof Vos; Ron Barrett An overview of the development and application of post-buckled precompressed (PBP) piezoelectric actuators is presented. It has been demonstrated that PBP actuators outperform conventional piezoelectric actuators by relying on axial compression to counter the inherent...

...Rajesh Kudikala; Deb Kalyanmoy; Bishakh Bhattacharya Shape control of adaptive structures using piezoelectric actuators has found a wide range of applications in recent years. In this paper, the problem of finding optimal distribution of piezoelectric actuators and corresponding actuation voltages...

...P. R. Ouyang; W. J. Zhang; M. M. Gupta A mechanical amplifier is an important device, which together with a piezoelectric actuator can achieve motion with high resolution and long range. In this paper, a new topology based on a symmetric five-bar structure for displacement amplification is proposed...

... are also presented to illustrate the effect of damping, external spring stiffness, and driving frequency. The optimal topology of the compliant mechanism is shown to be dependent on the driving frequency, the external spring stiffness, and whether the piezoelectric actuator element is considered design...

... microfluidics flow piezoelectric actuators design engineering solar cells micro-optics finite element analysis 2 A variety of light driven microactuators have been studied and proposed for several applications, which include PLZT-based microactuators for microrobots ( 1 ), light-to-thermal...