“Design and fabrication of soft composite actuators by using shape memory alloy (SMA) wire embedded woven glass fiber”

Аннотация

In this monograph presented a soft composite bending actuator based on glass fiber textile interwoven with shape memory alloy (SMA) wire and a soft matrix . The design and fabrication processes of the proposed soft composite bending actuators are provided in detail. For the proposed soft composite actuators, we varied the interwoven patterns of the SMA wires so that the actuators show multi-mode bending behaviors. The multi-mode soft composite actuators capable of three different bending modes were fabricated and their actuating performances were evaluated in terms of curvatutc. fuither investigated the actuation performances with varying stiffness of the glass fiber textile and the diameter of the SMA wire.