The surprising properties of biomaterials are the results of billions of years of evolution.
Generally, biomaterials are assembled under mild conditions with very limited supply of …

Large deformations of soft materials can give rise to the development of various elastic
instabilities. The phenomenon is associated with a sudden and dramatic change in structure …

Widely used as insulators, capacitors, and transducers in daily life, soft dielectrics based on
polymers and polymeric gels play important roles in modern electrified society. Owning to …

This contribution addresses a two-scale computational homogenization framework for the
simulation of electro-active solids at finite strains. A generalized form of the Hill–Mandel …

This paper reports a finite element based numerical framework for simulating the
electromechanical behavior of nonlinear anisotropic dielectric elastomer actuators at finite …

We investigate the microscopic and macroscopic instabilities developing in magnetoactive
elastomer (MAE) composites undergoing large deformations in the presence of an external …

We investigate the behavior of magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) with periodic and random
distributions of circular and elliptical fibers. For the MAEs with periodic microstructures, we …

We investigate the macroscopic magnetomechanical instabilities in magnetorheological
elastomer (MRE) composites undergoing finite strains in the presence of a magnetic field. In …

Soft electroactive materials (SEAMs), which possess significant advantages over
conventional hard materials, have attracted great attention in recent years. They have been …

Dielectric elastomer (DE) is one type of promising field-activated electroactive polymer.
However, its significant electromechanical actuated properties are always obtained under a …