Giant, voltage-actuated deformation of a dielectric elastomer under dead load

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Jiangshui ^a   Li, Tiefeng ^a,b   Chiang Foo, Choon ^a,c   Zhu, Jian ^a   Clarke, David R ^a   Suo, Zhigang ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD LOADS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL INSTABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; RIGID CONSTRAINT; SNAP-THROUGH; VOLTAGE RAMP;

DEFORMATION; ELASTOMERS;

PLASTICS;

EID: 84861354455     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680591     Document Type: Article

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