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This paper presents the technology to control the shape of thin polymer doubly curved shell structures with a unimorph layer of strain actuators to achieve high quality, light-weight, foldable space reflectors. The selected active material is PVDF-TrFE deposited by spin coating; it is electrostrictive, isotropic and enjoys an excellent piezoelectric coefficientd 31  ≃ 15pC/N when properly annealed, but has a nonlinear, quadratic behavior. The strain actuation is controlled by an array of segmented electrodes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the material properties achieved in the manufacturing process. A simple, unidirectional model of electrostrictive material is considered and the material constants (electrostrictive constantQ 33    , piezoelectric constantd 31    , spontaneous polarizationP sand poling strainS P    ) are estimated from various static and dynamic experiments. The final part of the paper illustrates the control authority on a small demonstrator with seven independent electrodes and compares the experimental results with numerical finite element simulations.

Electrostrictive PVDF-TrFE Thin Film Actuators for the Control of Adaptive Thin Shell Reflectors