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Record Nr.

UNINA9910841863803321

Titolo

Electro- and Magneto-Mechanics of Soft Solids : Constitutive Modelling, Numerical Implementations, and Instabilities / / edited by Kostas Danas, Oscar Lopez-Pamies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-48351-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Collana

CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures, , 2309-3706 ; ; 610

Disciplina

620.11897

Soggetti

Mechanics, Applied

Solids

Soft condensed matter

Composite materials

Polymers

Solid Mechanics

Soft Materials

Composites

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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).