We provide an energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of thinning instability in soft electroactive elastomers. This phenomenon is a major obstacle to the development of giant actuators, yet it is neither completely understood nor modeled accurately. In excellent agreement with experiments, we give a simple formula to predict the critical voltages for instability patterns; we model their shape and show that reversible (elastic) equilibrium is impossible beyond their onset. Our derivation is fully analytical, does not require finite element simulations, and can be extended to include prestretch and various material models.
Catastrophic Thinning of Dielectric Elastomers / Zurlo, G.; Destrade, M.; DE TOMMASI, Domenico; Puglisi, Giuseppe. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 118:7(2017). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.078001]
Catastrophic Thinning of Dielectric Elastomers
DE TOMMASI, Domenico;PUGLISI, Giuseppe
2017-01-01
Abstract
We provide an energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of thinning instability in soft electroactive elastomers. This phenomenon is a major obstacle to the development of giant actuators, yet it is neither completely understood nor modeled accurately. In excellent agreement with experiments, we give a simple formula to predict the critical voltages for instability patterns; we model their shape and show that reversible (elastic) equilibrium is impossible beyond their onset. Our derivation is fully analytical, does not require finite element simulations, and can be extended to include prestretch and various material models.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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