Responsive functional composites comprise of materials that can react to environmental
stimuli and remodel their shapes. 4D printing and integrating active materials render …

Wrinkling of thin films under tension is omnipresent in nature and modern industry, a
phenomenon which has aroused considerable attention during the past two decades …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of smart elastomers exhibiting unusual
mechanical behavior, including large energy dissipation and soft elasticity under uniaxial …

The foundation of a new concept, coined here as hyperinelasticity, is presented in this work
for modelling the isothermal elastic and inelastic behaviours of polymers. This concept is …

Continuum models describing ideal nematic solids are widely used in theoretical studies of
liquid crystal elastomers. However, experiments on nematic elastomers show a type of …

We derive a general constitutive model for nematic liquid crystalline rods. Our approach
consists in reducing the three-dimensional strain-energy density of a nematic cylindrical …

Stability is an important and fruitful avenue of research for liquid crystal elastomers. At
constant temperature, upon stretching, the homogeneous state of a nematic body becomes …

Abstract A generalised WI 1, I 2 strain energy function, a generalisation of previously
devised response functions W 1 and W 2, of binomial form is presented in this work for …

This paper seeks to put forward an alternative notion for modelling the continuous softening
in the finite deformation of incompressible isotropic rubber-like materials, up to the onset of …

A hyperelasticity modelling approach is employed for capturing various and complex
mechanical behaviours exhibited by macroscopically isotropic polydomain liquid crystal …