Purpose
This repository aims to offer the mechanical characteristics of a wide range of elastomers for soft robotics applications and thus to aid material selection. Relying on the ASTM D412 testing standards we followed a rigorous protocol to characterize elastomers through tensile testing.
Authors: This repository is maintained by Luc Marechal (Associate Professor at USMB - SYMME) and Lukas Lindenroth (Lecturer in Surgical Robotics at King's College London)
The Soft Robotics Database App
In addition to visualising raw experimental data, the app allows you to fit a range of constitutive models and extract the respective model parameters for your own soft robotics applications in the Constitutive Models section.
How to use the App ? :point_right: https://github.com/LucMarechal/Soft-Robotics-Materials-Database/wiki/Soft-Robotics-Materials-Database-App
Wiki
https://github.com/LucMarechal/Soft-Robotics-Materials-Database/wiki
License
This Soft Robotics Materials Database is an Open Source database made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/
Citing
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/soro.2019.0115
To cite the Soft Robotics Materials Database in your academic research, please use the following bibtex entry:
@article{Marechal2020,
author = {Marechal, Luc and Balland, Pascale and Lindenroth, Lukas and Petrou, Fotis and Kontovounisios, Christos and Bello, Fernando},
title = {Towards a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics},
journal = {Soft Robotics},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
pages = {null},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1089/soro.2019.0115},
}