Thermo-electro-mechanical instability of dielectric elastomers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Liwu ^a   Liu, Yanju ^a   Li, Bo ^b   Yang, Kai ^a   Li, Tiefeng ^c   Leng, Jinsong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASTICS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 79960614223     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/7/075004     Document Type: Article

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