Deformation and instabilities in dielectric elastomer composites

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Li, Wenyuan ^a   Landis, Chad M ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURE; CYLINDRICAL HOLES; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC DISPLACEMENT; ELECTRICAL LOADING; ELECTROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMECHANICAL RESPONSE; GENT MODEL; NEO-HOOKEAN MODEL; SQUARE ARRAY; STRESS-STRAIN; UNIT CELLS;

ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTICS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 84866110472     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/9/094006     Document Type: Article

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