Coupled chemo-electro-mechanical formulation for ionic polymer gels - Numerical and experimental investigations

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 411-420

  Wallmersperger, Thomas ^a   Kröplin, Bernd ^a   Gülch, Rainer W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bending motion; Chemo electro mechanical multi field formulation; Donnan potential; Ion concentrations; Microelectrode technique; Numerical simulation; Osmotic pressure; Polyelectrolyte gels

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GELS; IONIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSMOSIS; POISSON EQUATION; POLYELECTROLYTES; SWELLING;

BENDING MOTION; CHEMO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL FORMULATIONS; DONNAN POTENTIAL; POLYMER GELS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0346910180     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6636(03)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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