Modeling and simulation of an artificial
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Koray K. Şafak; George G. Adams
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The shape memory effect exhibited by Nitinol wire can be utilized to construct an artificial muscle. The muscle is activated by an electric current, which produces heat and initiates a phase transformation. The Nitinol artificial muscle stress-strain-power relationship was determined by experiments,