Actuation of thin nematic elastomer sheets with controlled heterogeneity

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1167-3zbMATH Open1384.35126arXiv1611.00729OpenAlexW2548113464WikidataQ59737177 ScholiaQ59737177MaRDI QIDQ1702437FDOQ1702437

Kaushik Bhattacharya, Paul Plucinsky, Marius Lemm

Publication date: 28 February 2018

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Nematic elastomers and glasses deform spontaneously when subjected to temperature changes. This property can be exploited in the design of heterogeneously patterned thin sheets that deform into a non-trivial shape when heated or cooled. In this paper, we start from a variational formulation for the entropic elastic energy of liquid crystal elastomers and we derive an effective two-dimensional metric constraint, which links the deformation and the heterogeneous director field. Our main results show that satisfying the metric constraint is both necessary and sufficient for the deformation to be an approximate minimizer of the energy. We include several examples which show that the class of deformations satisfying the metric constraint is quite rich.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00729

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zbMATH Keywords

variational formulationliquid crystal elastomersentropic elastic energynematic elastomer sheets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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