期刊
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
卷 290, 期 -, 页码 177-189出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2019.03.015
关键词
3D printing; shape memory alloy; soft actuator; finite element modeling
资金
- SUTD Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre (DManD) - Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Public Sector Funding (PSF) [1521200086]
- U.S. Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG)
- SUTD Start-up Research Grant
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been widely used to fabricate soft actuators by embedding SMA wires into various soft matrices manufactured by conventional moulding methods or novel three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques. However, soft matrices of SMA based actuators are typically fabricated from only one or two different materials. Here, we exploit the great manufacturing flexibility of multimaterial 3D printing to fabricate various bending, twisting and extensional actuators by precisely controlling the spatial arrangements of different printing materials with different stiffnesses. In order to achieve a broad range of deformations, ten different printing materials were characterized and used in the actuators design. In addition, we developed a finite element model to simulate complex deformations of the printed actuators and facilitate the design process. The model incorporates a user defined material subroutine that describes the nonlinear temperature dependant behavior of SMA5. The results show the efficiency and flexibility of multimaterial 3D printing in tailoring the deformed shape of the SMA based soft actuators, which cannot be accomplished using conventional manufacturing methods such as moulding. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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