Modeling and simulation of thermally actuated bilayer plates Academic Article

abstract

• 2017 Elsevier Inc. We present a mathematical model of polymer bilayers that undergo large bending deformations when actuated by non-mechanical stimuli such as thermal effects. The simple model captures a large class of nonlinear bending effects and can be discretized with standard plate elements. We devise a fully practical iterative scheme and apply it to the simulation of folding of several practically useful compliant structures comprising of thin elastic layers.

authors

• Bonito, Andrea
• Muliana, Anastasia

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Bartels, S., Bonito, A., Muliana, A. H., & Nochetto, R. H.

citation count

• 12

complete list of authors

• Bartels, Soeren||Bonito, Andrea||Muliana, Anastasia H||Nochetto, Ricardo H

publication date

• January 2018

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Computational Physics  Journal

keywords

• Bilayer Bending
• Deployable Structure
• Encapsulation
• Finite Element Method
• Iterative Solution
• Micro-switch
• Nonlinear Elasticity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.10.044

start page

• 512

end page

• 528

volume

• 354

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.10.044