Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Many soft robots are composed of soft fluidic actuators that are fabricated from silicone
rubbers and use hydraulic or pneumatic actuation. The strong nonlinearities and complex …

Dielectric elastomer generator systems (DEGSs) are a class of electrostatic soft‐transducers
capable of converting oscillating mechanical power from different sources into usable …

Hyperelastic materials are frequently observed in the natural world and engineering
applications such as rubbers and animal soft tissues. Modeling large deformation and …

Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Third Edition provides engineering students with a
complete, concise, and accessible introduction to advanced engineering mechanics. The …

Understanding the constitutive behavior of the human brain is critical to interpret the physical
environment during neurodevelopment, neurosurgery, and neurodegeneration. A wide …

We now apply thermodynamic principles to field theories with memory. For general
nonlinear, nonisothermal theories, we assume that a free energy is given, this being the …

Hyperelasticity is a common modeling approach to reproduce the nonlinear mechanical
behavior of rubber materials at finite deformations. It is not only employed for stand-alone …

Elastomers are typically considered incompressible or slightly compressible. However, we
present simple tension and bulk tests showing that, under large deformations, these …

Emerging evidence suggests that the mechanical behavior of the brain plays a critical role in
development, disease, and aging. Recent studies have begun to characterize the …