Free-energy density functions for nematic elastomers

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1671-1689

  Fried, Eliot ^a,b   Sellers, Shaun ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nematic elasticity; B. Anisotropic material; B. Constitutive behavior; B. Finite strain; B. Polymeric material

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRAIN;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOR; FINITE STRAIN; NEMATIC ELASTICITY;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 2442482750     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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