Nonlinear Vibration and Stability of a Dielectric Elastomer Balloon Based on a Strain-Stiffening Model
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Published:2022-05-23
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ISSN:0374-3535
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Container-title:Journal of Elasticity
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Elast
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Alibakhshi Amin, Chen Weiqiu, Destrade MichelORCID
Abstract
AbstractLimiting chain extensibility is a characteristic that plays a vital role in the stretching of highly elastic materials. The Gent model has been widely used to capture this behaviour, as it performs very well in fitting stress-stretch data in simple tension, and involves two material parameters only. Recently, Anssari-Benam and Bucchi (Int. J. Non. Linear. Mech. 128:103626, 2021) introduced a different form of generalised neo-Hookean model, focusing on the molecular structure of elastomers, and showed that their model encompasses all ranges of deformations, performing better than the Gent model in many respects, also with only two parameters. Here we investigate the nonlinear vibration and stability of a dielectric elastomer balloon modelled by that strain energy function. We derive the deformation field in spherical coordinates and the governing equations by the Euler-Lagrange method, assuming that the balloon retains its spherical symmetry as it inflates. We consider in turn that the balloon is under two types of voltages, a pure DC voltage and an AC voltage superimposed on a DC voltage. We analyse the dynamic response of the balloon and identify the influential parameters in the model. We find that the molecular structure of the material, as tracked by the number of segments in a single chain, can control the instability and the pull-in/snap-through critical voltage, as well as chaos and quasi-periodicity. The main result is that balloons made of materials exhibiting early strain-stiffening effects are more stable and less prone to generate chaotic nonlinear vibrations than when made of softer materials, such as those modelled by the neo-Hookean strain-energy density function.
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Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Shenzhen Technical Project National University Ireland, Galway
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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