Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch

Soft robotics, a recently popularized topic, is touched upon. It outlines diverse soft materials and their properties for the soft actuator. The primary objective of this dissertation is to identify the characteristics of soft material in a novel way through studying the relationship between strain...

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Main Author: Kwok, Ming Li
Other Authors: K Jimmy Hsia
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1678422023-06-03T16:51:41Z Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch Kwok, Ming Li K Jimmy Hsia School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Liu MingChao kjhsia@ntu.edu.sg, mingchao.liu@ntu.edu.sg Engineering::Mechanical engineering Soft robotics, a recently popularized topic, is touched upon. It outlines diverse soft materials and their properties for the soft actuator. The primary objective of this dissertation is to identify the characteristics of soft material in a novel way through studying the relationship between strain and angle during tension-buckling. There are quite a few of existing papers on buckling that have already been published previously, but they concentrate to analyse the relationship among stress and strain on buckling it develops by compression or tension. Angle, however, is a key consequence of tension buckled. The tension machine utilized throughout the current study project has been constructed for determining the deformation degree resulting from strained a rectangular sheet while applying tensile stress in the Y-direction. There are two sets of test specimens with varied thicknesses. Each set of PVC testing samples are created in six groups with varying lengths and widths. The most significant result about the current investigation is that strain is, for the most part, linearly dependent on angle. Nevertheless, some of the anomalous results have been brought via uncontrollable and unreversible factors, such as gravity and flaws in the test product. Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) 2023-06-01T06:59:41Z 2023-06-01T06:59:41Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Kwok, M. L. (2023). Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167842 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167842 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch
description Soft robotics, a recently popularized topic, is touched upon. It outlines diverse soft materials and their properties for the soft actuator. The primary objective of this dissertation is to identify the characteristics of soft material in a novel way through studying the relationship between strain and angle during tension-buckling. There are quite a few of existing papers on buckling that have already been published previously, but they concentrate to analyse the relationship among stress and strain on buckling it develops by compression or tension. Angle, however, is a key consequence of tension buckled. The tension machine utilized throughout the current study project has been constructed for determining the deformation degree resulting from strained a rectangular sheet while applying tensile stress in the Y-direction. There are two sets of test specimens with varied thicknesses. Each set of PVC testing samples are created in six groups with varying lengths and widths. The most significant result about the current investigation is that strain is, for the most part, linearly dependent on angle. Nevertheless, some of the anomalous results have been brought via uncontrollable and unreversible factors, such as gravity and flaws in the test product.
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title Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch
title_short Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch
title_full Development of efficient soft actuators based on simple structures coupling with strain mismatch
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