DESIGN OF A BIOMIMETIC FISH CAUDAL DRIVE VIA MACRO FIBER COMPOSITE
According to the technology of the body-and-caudal fin drive, a novel design of biomimetic caudal drive is proposed in this paper. The drive is a two-layer laminated plate that is composed of Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) and a substrate of variable stiffness. When the material of the substrate is glass fiber epoxy reinforced composites, the biggest displacement of the terminal is 4mm in the air and 1.97mm under the water, and when the material is glass fiber composites of polyurethane, the biggest displacement is 2.39mm in the air. Therefore, the experiments verify the feasibility of the design and the significance of the substrates stiffness for the drive of the caudal fin.
MFC Biomimetic fish Laminated plate Glass fiber composite
Yuan-lin GUAN Zhi-wei XU Hua-feng LI
State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
国际会议
深圳
英文
123-125
2011-12-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）