The vibrational characteristics of a cantilever beam are well known to depend strongly on the fluid in which the beam is immersed. In this paper, we exploit this property to obtain a small scale viscometer, by using an IPMC (Ionic Polymer Metal Composites) based beam. IPMCs are polymeric composites with a lot of interesting properties: they are light, flexible, low cost and biocompatible and present an interesting electromechanical coupling capability, moreover by using IPMC it would be possible to obtain integrated devices, being the conditioning circuitry very simple. In this paper a model of the device is presented along with its experimental validation
A small scale viscosimeter based on IPMCs
XIBILIA, Maria Gabriella
2009-01-01
Abstract
The vibrational characteristics of a cantilever beam are well known to depend strongly on the fluid in which the beam is immersed. In this paper, we exploit this property to obtain a small scale viscometer, by using an IPMC (Ionic Polymer Metal Composites) based beam. IPMCs are polymeric composites with a lot of interesting properties: they are light, flexible, low cost and biocompatible and present an interesting electromechanical coupling capability, moreover by using IPMC it would be possible to obtain integrated devices, being the conditioning circuitry very simple. In this paper a model of the device is presented along with its experimental validationPubblicazioni consigliate
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