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A Novel Fiber Jamming Theory And Experimental Verification, Jared Richard Chafetz
A Novel Fiber Jamming Theory And Experimental Verification, Jared Richard Chafetz
Master's Theses
This thesis developed a novel theory of fiber jamming and experimentally verified it. The theory relates the performance, which is the ratio between the stiff and soft states of a fiber jamming chamber, to three relative design parameters: the ratio of the wall thickness to the membrane inner diameter, the ratio of the fiber diameter to membrane inner diameter, and the number of fibers. These three parameters, when held constant across different chamber sizes, hold the performance constant. To test the theory, three different types of fiber jamming chambers were built in three different sizes. Each chamber was set up …