scholarly journals Investigation on the viscoelastic behaviors of a circular dielectric elastomer membrane undergoing large deformation

AIP Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 125127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
Zhengang Wang ◽  
Tianhu He
2014 ◽  
Vol 912-914 ◽  
pp. 981-988
Author(s):  
Lei Lei Cui ◽  
Li Li

Due to the capability of high strain, dielectric elastomers are promising for applications as transducers in cameras, robots, valves, pumps, energy harvesters and so on. This paper focuses on the large deformation analysis of a dielectric elastomer membrane.The membrane is initially flat and attached to a disk in the inner circle and to a rigid ring in the outer circle, then a weight is applied to the disk and the membrane deforms into an axisymmetric shape, undergoing large out-of-plane deformation. The membrane is assumed to behave elastically in accordance with the ogden law. The governing equations are derived by combining kinematics and thermodynamics and a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are obtained finally. The ODEs are solved by using shooting method. The obtained results show that the deformation field in the membrane is very inhomogeneous.


Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1120-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tenghao Yin ◽  
Danming Zhong ◽  
Junjie Liu ◽  
Xiangjiang Liu ◽  
Honghui Yu ◽  
...  

A dielectric elastomer with large deformation is used to tune the diffracted patterns of 2D photonic crystals for the first time.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Li ◽  
Yuhan Xie ◽  
Guorui Li ◽  
Xuxu Yang ◽  
Yongbin Jin ◽  
...  

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