Research Article

A Computing Method to Determine the Performance of an Ionic Liquid Gel Soft Actuator

Table 1

Comparison of the calculated tensile stress with the experimental data from the uniaxial tensile test.

Measurement dataExperimental resultsFive-parameter Mooney-Rivlin modelNine-parameter Mooney-Rivlin model
Force
(mN)
Deformation (mm)Strain (%)Stress (kPa)Calculated stress () (kPa)Error (%)Calculated stress () (kPa)Error (%)

4.972.05.70.500.500.460.500.00
8.213.5100.860.860.510.860.07
14.887.0201.701.700.261.700.03
20.5210.5302.542.540.062.550.26
25.3514.0403.383.370.243.390.29
29.4717.5504.214.210.134.230.44
33.0621.0605.045.040.095.070.49
36.2224.5705.865.860.055.900.68
38.9428.0806.686.690.076.730.8
41.4831.5907.507.500.017.570.87
43.5835.01008.308.300.058.391.10
45.5038.51109.109.100.019.211.21
47.1342.01209.889.880.0210.021.41
48.6745.513010.6510.650.0110.821.57
49.9849.014011.4111.410.0411.601.67
51.0352.515012.1512.140.0612.371.80
51.9556.016012.8612.860.0113.122.03
52.7559.517013.5613.560.0113.862.19
53.4063.018014.2414.240.014.582.35
53.9066.519014.8914.900.0515.272.58
54.3270.020015.5215.530.0615.952.79
54.6573.521016.1216.140.1116.613.05
54.7877.022016.7016.720.1017.253.29
54.8680.523017.2517.270.1117.863.55
54.9484.024017.7817.790.0718.453.78
54.8487.525018.2818.280.0119.024.02
54.7291.026018.7418.740.0019.554.32
54.4794.527019.1819.160.0820.054.56
54.0198.028019.5719.550.0920.534.89
53.61101.529019.9319.900.1420.975.19
53.23105.030020.2420.210.1321.375.57
52.48108.531020.5020.490.0721.736.00
51.83112.032020.7320.710.0822.056.38
51.02115.533020.9120.900.0522.346.81
50.29119.034021.0421.040.0122.577.29
49.21122.535021.1221.130.0622.777.80
48.25126.036021.1621.180.0822.928.31
47.17129.537021.1521.170.1023.038.87