Actuator Materials for Environmentally Powered Engines
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Published:2023-04-04
Issue:13
Volume:8
Page:
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ISSN:2365-709X
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Container-title:Advanced Materials Technologies
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Adv Materials Technologies
Author:
Spinks Geoffrey M.1ORCID,
Abbasi Burhan B. A.1,
Gautam Aashrit1,
Mokhtari Fatemeh1,
Jiang Zhen1
Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences University of Wollongong Northfields Avenue Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Abstract
AbstractThe first solid‐state engine that converted heat into continuous mechanical motion using a thermally responsive actuating material was introduced almost a century ago. These engines used vulcanized rubber where the cyclically heating and cooling of the rubber generate continuous mechanical power in pendulum or wheel type engines. The development of solid‐state heat engines has seen several waves of activity with interest stimulated by the introduction of new actuating materials capable of responding to different environmental stimuli. Opportunities for improved engine outputs are afforded by recently developed artificial muscle materials. A theoretical connection between engine output and the characteristics of the actuator material is developed to compare the performances of vulcanized rubber, shape memory alloys (SMAs), and twisted and coiled polymer (TCP) fiber artificial muscles. It is shown that with an engine designed to suit the actuation performance of TCPs engines powered by the tensile actuation of such materials would exceed the output of SMA heat engines. The properties needed in actuator materials to further enhance engine output are identified and polymer structures that may produce such properties are described.
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
Cited by
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