[图书][B] Cross-linked liquid crystalline systems: from rigid polymer networks to elastomers

D Broer, GP Crawford, S Zumer - 2011 - books.google.com
With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the
liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible …

Elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers

JS Biggins, M Warner, K Bhattacharya - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Liquid crystal elastomers are rubbery networks of entropically dominated polymer chains
that exhibit mobile liquid crystalline order. These materials have been of recent interest for …

Measurement of electrically induced shear strain in a chiral smectic liquid-crystal elastomer

YH Na, Y Aburaya, H Orihara, K Hiraoka - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2011 - APS
The mechanical response to electrical stimulation was investigated in a chiral smectic
elastomer. The two-dimensional strain tensor in an elastomer film was precisely measured …

Effect of lattice orientation, surface modulation, and applied fields on free-surface domain microstructure in ferroelectrics

L Yang, K Dayal - Acta materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric perovskites are used in various transducer, memory and optical applications
due to their attractive electromechanical and optical properties. In these applications, the …

Negative Poisson's ratio and semisoft elasticity of smectic- liquid-crystal elastomers

AW Brown, JM Adams - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
Models of smectic-C liquid-crystal elastomers predict that they can display soft elasticity, in
which the shape of the elastomer changes at no energy cost. The amplitude of the soft mode …

Electrically induced deformation in chiral smectic elastomers with different domain structures

YH Na, Y Aburaya, H Orihara, K Hiraoka, Y Han - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Electrical actuation is investigated in two kinds of chiral smectic liquid-crystal elastomers
(LCEs) with different domain structures LCE1 and LCE2: The latter is better than the former …

Characterization of soft stripe-domain deformations in and liquid-crystal elastomers

JS Biggins, K Bhattacharya - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2009 - APS
The neoclassical model of Sm-C (and Sm-C∗) elastomers developed by Warner and Adams
predicts a class of “soft”(zero energy) deformations. We find and describe the full set of stripe …

[PDF][PDF] Real Space Phase Field Simulations of Ferroelectric Materials

L Yang - Dissertation Abstracts International, 2012 - Citeseer
Ferroelectric perovskites are used in various transducer, memory and optical applications
due to their attractive electromechanical and optical properties. In these applications …

[图书][B] Numerical Modelling of Stretched Smectic Elastomer Sheets: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure

AW Brown - 2013 - search.proquest.com
This thesis explores the non-linear elasticity of smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystal
elastomers. These materials consist of" rod-like" liquid crystal mesogens arranged in a …