Fully coupled electromechanical model for dielectric elastomer sheets

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-15

  Lassen, Benny ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Jones, Richard W ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer (DE) sheets; electromechanical effects; mathematical modeling; nonlinear phenomena

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BREAK DOWN; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; FULLY-COUPLED; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NON-LINEAR PHENOMENA; SHAPE AND SIZE; SIMPLIFIED MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOMERS; PLASTICS;

PAPER SHEETING;

EID: 78651362275     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2068557     Document Type: Article

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