COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING A MESOMORPHIC ELASTOMER, AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to an adaptive composite material including a reinforcement and a matrix, at least one of which includes at least one elastomer liquid crystal, characterized in that the material has an actuator function over the entirety or a portion thereof so as to perform a first non-reversible contraction or twisting or winding upon the first activation thereof, as well as a predetermined reversible and controllable contraction or twisting or winding, which is added to the first one, upon every following activation. The invention can be used in numerous sectors.