Humidity-driven bifurcation in a hydrogel-actuated nanostructure: A three-dimensional computational analysis

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2034-2042

  Wong, W H ^a   Guo, T F ^b   Zhang, Y W ^a,b   Cheng, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Humidity driven bifurcation; Hydrogel; Inhomogeneous deformation; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE; ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BIFURCATION BEHAVIOR; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATION; HYDROGEL LAYERS; INHOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATION; LARGE DEVIATIONS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIAL VARIATION; NANOSCALE RODS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SHAPE-MEMORY; SWELLING RATIO; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TUNABILITIES;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROGELS; MOISTURE; NANORODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 77955281256     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2010.03.036     Document Type: Article

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