Theoretical modeling of magnetoactive elastomers on different scales: a state-of-the-art review

TA Nadzharyan, M Shamonin, EY Kramarenko - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
A review of the latest theoretical advances in the description of magnetomechanical effects
and phenomena observed in magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs), ie, polymer networks filled …

A numerical study on magnetostrictive phenomena in magnetorheological elastomers

P Metsch, KA Kalina, C Spieler, M Kästner - Computational Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Herein, we present an investigation on magnetostrictive phenomena in magnetorheological
elastomers. By using a continuum approach, constitutive as well as geometric properties on …

Microstructurally-guided explicit continuum models for isotropic magnetorheological elastomers with iron particles

D Mukherjee, L Bodelot, K Danas - International Journal of Non-Linear …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work provides a family of explicit phenomenological models both in the F− H and F− B
variable space. These models are derived directly from an analytical implicit …

[HTML][HTML] Magneto-deformation and transverse elastic waves in hard-magnetic soft laminates

Q Zhang, S Rudykh - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
We study the magneto-mechanical behavior of periodic laminates made of hard-magnetic
active elastomers (HMAEs). We formulate the amended free-energy function for HMAEs, and …

Experimental investigation of the coupled magneto-mechanical response in magnetorheological elastomers

L Bodelot, JP Voropaieff, T Pössinger - Experimental Mechanics, 2018 - Springer
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are materials made of a soft elastomer matrix filled
with magnetizable particles. These flexible composites that deform in response to an …

[HTML][HTML] Computational and analytical investigations of shape effects in the experimental characterization of magnetorheological elastomers

MA Keip, M Rambausek - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
Magnetorheological elastomers (MRE) are composite solids consisting of an elastomeric
matrix and dispersed magnetic inclusions. Due to the composite nature of MREs, there is a …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetoelastic instabilities in soft laminates with ferromagnetic hyperelastic phases

P Pathak, N Arora, S Rudykh - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the microscopic and macroscopic instabilities developing in magnetoactive
elastomer (MAE) composites undergoing large deformations in the presence of an external …

[HTML][HTML] Smart electro-magneto-viscoelastomer minimum energy structures with particle-reinforcements: Theoretical equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics of actuated …

A Khurana, S Naskar, RK Varma… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soft transduction technology is rapidly adopting soft active elastomer-based minimum
energy structures because of their distinctive programmable shape-morphing …

Effective response of classical, auxetic and chiral magnetoelastic materials by use of a new variational principle

K Danas - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017 - Elsevier
This work provides a rigorous analysis of the effective response, ie, average magnetization
and magnetostriction, of magnetoelastic composites that are subjected to overall magnetic …

A general result for the magnetoelastic response of isotropic suspensions of iron and ferrofluid particles in rubber, with applications to spherical and cylindrical …

V Lefèvre, K Danas, O Lopez-Pamies - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper puts forth an approximate solution for the effective free-energy function
describing the homogenized (or macroscopic) magnetoelastic response of …