Suppression of electromechanical instability in fiber-reinforced dielectric elastomers

The electromechanical instability of dielectric elastomers has been a major challenge for the application of this class of active materials. In this work, we demonstrate that dielectric elastomers filled with soft fiber can suppress the electromechanical instability and achieve large deformation. Sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rui Xiao, Xiaofan Gou, Wen Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2016-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4945399