Bending of bilayers with general initial shapes

DOI10.1007/S10444-014-9347-2zbMATH Open1431.74083arXiv1110.1007OpenAlexW2069303316MaRDI QIDQ2017598FDOQ2017598

Silas Alben

Publication date: 23 March 2015

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

approximate analytical solutionelastic energyself-assemblycurvature directionrectangular bilayer

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)

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• Semi-implicit methods for the dynamics of elastic sheets

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