An investigation on electromechanical stability of dielectric elastomers undergoing large deformation

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Yanju ^a   Liu, Liwu ^a   Yu, Kai ^a   Sun, Shouhua ^a   Leng, Jinsong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELASTIC STRAIN ENERGY; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL STABILITY; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LINEAR PERMITTIVITY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STABILITY PERFORMANCE; TWO-MATERIALS;

ACTUATORS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASTICS; RUBBER; STRAIN ENERGY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 71049116459     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/9/095040     Document Type: Article

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