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Title Electro- and magneto-mechanics of soft solids : constitutive modelling, numerical implementations, and instabilities / Kostas Danas, Oscar Lopez-Pamies, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and lectures, 2309-3706 ; volume 610
Courses and lectures ; no. 610. 2309-3706
Contents The elastic dielectric response of elastomers filled with liquid inclusions: From fundamentals to governing equations -- Modelling of homogeneous and composite non-linear electro-elastic elastomers -- A unified theoretical modeling framework for soft and hard magnetorheological elastomers -- Elastic localizations
Summary This book examines the electro- and magneto-mechanics of soft composite materials and structures, and focuses on magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) and dielectric elastomer composites (DECs), which are composite materials that comprise ferromagnetic and high-dielectric/conducting filler nano- and micro-particles embedded in a soft polymeric matrix. This gives rise to a coupled magneto- and electro-mechanical response at the macroscopic (order of millimeters and larger) scale when they are subjected to magneto- electro-mechanical external stimuli. While such MRE and DEC materials and devices can become unstable at some critical electro-magneto-mechanical loading, their response may be well controlled in the post-instability regime. Moreover, recent advances on the complete electro-magneto-mechanical coupling are presented. All those aforementioned features motivate the operation of these devices in this unstable region to obtain controlled pattern formation, soft robotic motion and artificial muscles, controllable band-gap acoustic and electromagnetic properties, energy harvesting as well as actively controlled stiffness (for cell-growth). The book contains four individual chapters covering work on the fundamentals (O. Lopez-Pamies) and the modeling (M. Gei) of electroactive solids, the modeling of magnetoactive solids (K. Danas), and the analysis of elastic instabilities (Y. Fu)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 11, 2024)
Subject Elastomers -- Electric properties
Elastomers -- Mechanical properties
Composite materials -- Electric properties.
Composite materials -- Mechanical properties
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Danas, Kostas, editor.
Lopez-Pamies, Oscar, editor
ISBN 9783031483516
3031483510