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Adaptronic Functional Elements

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This chapter shows different designs of adaptronic functional elements. The first sections deals with piezo composites. The second section introduces stroke-amplifying transducers. Subsequently, construction methods for sensors and actuators from the other functional materials described in the previous chapter are presented. Finally, work on radial sensor PVDF fibers provides an insight into current research on adaptronic functional elements.

„Warum die Menschen so wenig behalten können was sie lesen ist, daß sie so wenig selbst denken.“

(“Why people can keep so little of what they read,

that they think so little of themselves.”)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)

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    Named after Jakob I. Bernoulli,1654–1705, Swiss mathematician and physicist.

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    Johannes Michael Sinapius

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Sinapius, J.M., Gries, T. (2021). Adaptronic Functional Elements. In: Adaptronics – Smart Structures and Materials. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61399-3_4

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