Publication Date:
2017-12-15
Description:
Author(s): Junshi Zhang, Hualing Chen, and Dichen Li When subjected to an ac voltage, a dielectric elastomer (DE) exhibits complicated nonlinear vibration, implying significant applications for dynamical actuators. For a vibrational system, including such a DE system, the dynamical properties must be affected by its geometric size. In this article, a nonlinear dynamical model is deduced to investigate the geometrical effects on the dynamical properties of viscoelastic DEs. The results indicate that the deformation response, vibrational periodicity, resonance, and other properties of DEs may be tuned by varying the system’s size. [Phys. Rev. Applied 8, 064016] Published Thu Dec 14, 2017
Electronic ISSN:
2331-7019
Topics:
Physics
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