Super stretchable soft actuator made of twisted and coiled spandex fiber

Kyeong Ho Cho; Min Geun Song; Sang Yul Yang; Youngeun Kim; Hosang Jung; Hyungpil Moon; Ja Choon Koo; Jae-Do Nam; Hyouk Ryeol Choi

doi:10.1117/12.2261611

17 April 2017 Super stretchable soft actuator made of twisted and coiled spandex fiber

Kyeong Ho Cho, Min Geun Song, Sang Yul Yang, Youngeun Kim, Hosang Jung, Hyungpil Moon, Ja Choon Koo, Jae-Do Nam, Hyouk Ryeol Choi

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Proceedings Volume 10163, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2017; 101630W (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2261611
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2017, Portland, Oregon, United States

Abstract

Twist and Coiled soft Actuator (TCA) is simply fabricated by twisting a polymer fiber. In the previous researches, TCA was mainly fabricated with Nylon 6,6 fiber, and Nylon-TCA (NTCA) showed strong force outputs. However, the strain from NTCA was not much enough for practical application. This paper introduces SPX-TCA (STCA) which is fabricated with Spandex fibers. NTCA and STCA were fabricated, and their performances were compared by using the performance evaluation device. STCA showed larger strain, and it was actuated lower temperature than NTCA.

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Kyeong Ho Cho, Min Geun Song, Sang Yul Yang, Youngeun Kim, Hosang Jung, Hyungpil Moon, Ja Choon Koo, Jae-Do Nam, and Hyouk Ryeol Choi "Super stretchable soft actuator made of twisted and coiled spandex fiber", Proc. SPIE 10163, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2017, 101630W (17 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2261611

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