The establishment of the Wright State University (WSU) high altitude balloon program creates an opportunity to conduct experiments in near space environments. Recently developed materials such as shape memory polymer composites are ideal for space applications due to their high specific stiffness (elastic modulus divided by density) and ability to be stowed into a small size for launch in conve...

The use of shape memory polymer composites is growing rapidly in smart structure applications. In this work, an active asymmetric composite called "controlled behavior composite material (CBCM)" is used as shape memory polymer composite. The programming and the corresponding initial fixity of the composite structure is obtained during a bending test, by heating CBCM above thermal glass transiti...

Abstract The hierarchical design approach provides various opportunities to adjust the structural performance of polymer materials. Electrospinning processing techniques give access molecular orientation as a parameter, which we consider here in view shape-memory actuation performance. aim this work is investigate how reversible strain $$\varepsilon^{\prime}_{{{\text{rev}}}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:m...