A complete thermo-electro-viscoelastic characterization of dielectric elastomers, Part II: Continuum modeling approach
Mehnert M, Hossain M, Steinmann P (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2021
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Original Authors: Markus Mehnert, Mokarram Hossain, Paul Steinmann
Book Volume: 157
Pages Range: 104625
Article Number: 104625
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104625
Abstract
A comprehensive experimental study performed under a combination of thermo-electro-mechanical loads applied to a widely used electro-active polymer, is presented in the Part I of this work (Mehnert et al., 2021). Soft polymeric materials, used as base materials in electro-active polymers, are highly susceptible to temperature changes. Hence, thermal influences on their behavior have to be investigated precisely. Constitutive modeling and numerical simulation of electro-active polymers are active fields of current research. However, on the one hand, their experimental study under complex loading conditions is non-trivial. On the other hand, very few constitutive modeling approaches meet with experimental data obtained from thermo-electro-mechanical loading conditions. In this contribution, we aim to develop a thermo-electro-mechanically coupled model, which will closely replicate the response of an electro-active polymer investigated under a combination of thermal, electric and mechanical loads. Once the model is calibrated with the experimental data described in Part I of this contribution, it is validated with a different set of data, which shows excellent agreement with experimental findings.
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APA:
Mehnert, M., Hossain, M., & Steinmann, P. (2021). A complete thermo-electro-viscoelastic characterization of dielectric elastomers, Part II: Continuum modeling approach. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 157, 104625. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104625
MLA:
Mehnert, Markus, Mokarram Hossain, and Paul Steinmann. "A complete thermo-electro-viscoelastic characterization of dielectric elastomers, Part II: Continuum modeling approach." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 157 (2021): 104625.
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