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cond-mat.soft2016★ 91 cited
Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers
Giuseppe Zurlo, Michel Destrade, Domenico DeTommasi +1
We provide a clear energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of the so-called creasing and pull-in instabilities in soft electro-active elastomers. These phenomena are ubiquit…
cond-mat.soft2016★ 137 cited
Methodical Fitting for Mathematical Models of Rubber-like Materials
Michel Destrade, Giuseppe Saccomandi, Ivonne Sgura
A great variety of models can describe the non-linear response of rubber to uni-axial tension. Yet an in-depth understanding of the successive stages of large extension is still la…