Suitability of Different Analytical Derivations of Electrically Induced Stress States in Planar and Cylindrical Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dielectric elastomers (DE) belong to a very performant and efficient class of functional materials for actuators, while being compliant, low-weight and silent, they offer high energy efficiencies and large deformations under an applied electric field. In this work, a comparison of different approach...

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Main Authors: Sascha Pfeil, Gerald Gerlach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/4/1321