Abstract Electro-magneto-active (EMA) polymers-based smart actuators suffer from electro-
magneto-mechanical instability (EMMI) phenomena arising due to the positive feedback …

The shape morphing behavior of dielectric elastomer-based minimum energy structures
(DEMES) generated by combining an inextensible frame and a pre-stretched dielectric …

Soft materials exhibiting large deformation under external stimuli have gained an increasing
attention in the recent past because of their potential applications in soft transducers aimed …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs), a special class of soft electro-active polymers that undergo finite
deformation under external electrical stimuli, offer a wide range of applications that include …

Minimum energy structures made up of smart electro-active polymers (SEAPs) have
attracted significant attention in the field of soft robotics and actuators due to their …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a class of highly deformable electro-active polymers (EAPs)
employed for electromechanical transduction technology. Imparting anisotropy to the …

Electrically driven dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are susceptible to an
electromechanical instability because of a positive feedback between the applied electric …

The polymer chain network within the dielectric elastomers (DEs) contains numerous
entanglements, crosslinks and finite extensibility, all of which play a substantial role in the …

We use a four-parameter material model for polymers-the Edward–Vilgis (EV) model, which
models polymeric crosslinks, sliplinks, slippage and inextensibility to analyze dielectric …

In the present letter, we model the pre-stretch and frequency parameter effect on the
dielectric permittivity of a dielectric elastomer. The present work is the extension of our most …