A continuum-mechanical theory for nematic elastomers

DOI10.1023/A:1007647913363zbMath0978.74004MaRDI QIDQ1578536

David Robert Anderson, Donald E. Carlson, Eliot Fried

Publication date: 30 May 2001

Published in: Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

free energyCauchy equationCauchy stress tensorself-forceconstraintsOseen-Frank theorymicrostressincompressible hyperelastic bodybalance equation for nematicMooney-Rivlin theorynematic elastomerRivlin's scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20)

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