Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a type of multifunctional materials with salient features that
are very attractive in developing soft, lightweight, and small-scale transducers and robotics …

Metamaterials (MMs), which include phononic crystals (PCs) as a particular type, exhibit
anomalous wave propagation properties through artificial design of topologies or lattice …

By employing periodic electrical boundary conditions, an innovative method to generate
actively tunable topologically protected interface mode in a “homogeneous” piezoelectric …

Topological phononic crystals have attracted intensive attention due to their peculiar
topologically protected interface or edge states. Their operating frequency, however, is …

Designing smart devices with tunable shapes has important applications in industrial
manufacture. In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear deformation and the morphological …

This paper presents an electromechanical analysis of the nonlinear static response and the
superimposed small-amplitude wave characteristics in an infinite periodic compressible …

Limiting chain extensibility is a characteristic that plays a vital role in the stretching of highly
elastic materials. The Gent model has been widely used to capture this behaviour, as it …

This paper studies the nonlinear vibration of a dielectric elastomer balloon considering both
the strain-stiffening and the second invariant of the Cauchy-Green deformation tensor. To …

Material properties of soft electro-active (SEA) structures are significantly sensitive to
external electro-mechanical biasing fields (such as pre-stretch and electric stimuli), which …

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