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

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs)
due to their ability to retain high residual magnetization and undergo large deformations …

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) 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 …

In this research, we carry out a modeling and experimental study on the performance of a
VHB 4910 elastomer considering the humidity effect. Firstly, based on the uniaxial tension …

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 …

It is widely recognized that the extension limit of polymer chains has a significant effect on
the snap-through instability of dielectric elastomers (DEs). The snap-through instability …