Thermally actuated shape-memory polymers: Experiments, theory, and numerical simulations

With the aim of developing a thermo-mechanically-coupled large-deformation constitutive theory and a numerical-simulation capability for modeling the response of thermally-actuated shape-memory polymers, we have (i) conducted large strain compression experiments on a representative shape-memory po...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Srivastava, Vikas, Chester, Shawn Alexander, Anand, Lallit
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65390
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-7888