Bending of bilayers with general initial shapes

DOI10.1007/S10444-014-9347-2MaRDI QIDQ2017598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Silas Alben

Publication date 23 March 2015

Published in Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1007

zbMATH Keywords

approximate analytical solutioncurvature directionelastic energyrectangular bilayerself-assembly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Composite and mixture properties (74E30) Analytic approximation of solutions (perturbation methods, asymptotic methods, series, etc.) of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G10) Thin bodies, structures (74K99)

Abstract: We present a simple discrete formula for the elastic energy of a bilayer. The formula is convenient for rapidly computing equilibrium configurations of actuated bilayers of general initial shapes. We use maps of principal curvatures and minimum-curvature direction fields to analyze configurations. We find good agreement between the computations and an approximate analytical solution for the case of a rectangular bilayer. For more general shapes (simple polyiamonds), we find a range of typical bending behaviors: overall bending directions along longest and shortest dimensions, inward bending at corners, curvature intensification near boundaries, and conical bending and partitioned bending zones in some cases.

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