A FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS

• Published in: Acta mechanica solida Sinica Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 459 - 466
• Main Authors: Qu, Shaoxing, Suo, Zhigang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2012; Springer Singapore; Soft Matter Research Center(SMRC), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA%School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
• Subjects: ABAQUS; Classical Mechanics; Computer programs; Computer simulation; dielectric elastomer; Dielectrics; Elastomers; electromechanical coupling; Engineering; Finite element method; Mathematical analysis; Software; Surfaces and Interfaces; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Thin Films; Transducers; 不均匀变形; 介电; 弹性体; 换能器; 有限元方法; 有限元软件; 耦合问题; electromechanical coupling; finite element method; dielectric elastomer
• ISSN: 0894-9166; 1860-2134
• DOI: 10.1016/S0894-9166(12)60040-8

We present a finite element method for dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers based on the nonlinear field theory of DE. The method is implemented in the commercial finite element software ABAQUS, which provides a large library functions to describe finite elasticity. This method can be used to solve electromechanical coupling problems of DE transducers with complex configurations and under inhomogeneous deformation.