Variable stiffness and fast-response soft structures based on electrorheological fluids

作者：Huilan Jing, Letian Hua, Fei Long, Bojin Lv, Bing Wang, Hewen Zhang, Xunye Fan, Hongru Zheng, Chengyi Chu, Gaojie Xu, Jianjun Guo, Aihua Sun, Yuchuan Cheng · 发表于：Journal of Materials Chemistry C · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1039/d3tc01563g · 被引用次数：24 · 研究领域：Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids、Soft Robotics and Applications、Elevator Systems and Control

A soft structure with continuously variable stiffness and fast response was designed. Varying the electric field strength (0 to 4.5 kV mm −1 ), the rate of stiffness variation is over 1500%. The response time to load change is within 65 ms.