supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10832009);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0480);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. Z1110057);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
The performance of dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers is significantly affected by viscoelastic relaxation-induced electromechanical dissipations. This paper presents an experi- mental study to obtain the rate de...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10832009);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0480);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and MRSEC at Harvard University;support by the China Scholarship Council Foundation and Harvard University through the sponsoring of a nine-month visit at Harvard University
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 la...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10832009 and 11090333);the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities(2011XZZX002)
We theoretically study the indentation response of a compressible soft electroactive material by a rigid punch. The half-space material is assumed to be initially subjected to a finite deformation and an electric bias...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11090333,10832009 and10725210)
Surface effect,which is attributed to the different environment surrounding the surface or near-surface atoms from that embracing the bulk atoms,may become significant when the surface-to-volume ratio of a body is lar...
supports by the Key Research Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 10832009)
Thickness effects on the ME coefficient αME and electromechanical resonance frequency of Metglas/PZT/Metglas tri-layered laminates are investigated. The thickness of the magnetic plate is changed by assembling differ...
the financial support from the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos.11002123 and 10832009);Zhejiang Provincial Qianjiang Talent Fund(E9027);Key Innovation Fund(2009R50025)
Many distinguished properties of epitaxial ferroelectric thin films can be tunable through the misfit strain.The strain tunability of ferroelectric and dielectric properties in epitaxial lead titanate ultrathin films ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 10832009);the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No 2004CB619304);the Science Foundation of Chinese University (No 2009QNA4034)
The shift in the percolation threshold of compressed composites was studied by a 3D continuum percolation model. A Monte Carlo (MC) method was employed in the simulations. The percolation threshold was found to rise w...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10725210 and 10832009);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No 20060335107);the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (Grant No 2009CB623204);the Scientific Research Foundation for Tsuiying Talents of Lanzhou University
A general formulation of the method of the reverberation-ray matrix (MRRM) based on the state space formalism and plane wave expansion technique is presented for the analysis of guided waves in multilayered piezoelect...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10702061, 10725210, and 10832009);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. Y607116)
Thermal-mechanical behavior of functionally graded thick plates, with one pair of opposite edges simply supported, is investigated based on 3D thermoelasticity. As for the arbitrary boundary conditions, a semi-analyti...