In response to a stimulus, a soft material deforms, and the deformation provides a function.
We call such a material a soft active material (SAM). This review focuses on one class of soft …

In the last few years, it has been recognized that the large deformation capacity of
elastomeric materials that are sensitive to electric fields can be harnessed for use in …

Dielectric elastomers are capable of large voltage-induced deformation, but achieving such
large deformation in practice has been a major challenge due to electromechanical …

In the present work, a machine learning based constitutive model for electro-mechanically
coupled material behavior at finite deformations is proposed. Using different sets of …

Mechanical energy can be converted to electrical energy by using a dielectric elastomer
generator. The elastomer is susceptible to various modes of failure, including electrical …

Dielectric elastomers, as an important category of electroactive polymers, are known to have
viscoelastic properties that strongly affect their dynamic performance and limit their …

VHB 4910 is an important polymeric material that has potential use as electro-active polymer
in producing actuators. Such polymer, a member of the acrylic polymer group, is a very soft …

Widely used as insulators, capacitors, and transducers in daily life, soft dielectrics based on
polymers and polymeric gels play important roles in modern electrified society. Owning to …

Recently, the so-called Very High Bond (VHB in short) tape has proven to be an ideal
polymer for producing devices made of electric field-responsive functional materials, eg …

In this paper, a new framework for large strain of electro-active viscoelastic polymeric beams
is developed. The kinematical quantities of beam are derived, and then the constitutive …