STRAIN-ORDER COUPLING IN NEMATIC ELASTOMERS: EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0218202509003541MaRDI QIDQ3635944zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Pierluigi Cesana, Antonio DeSimone

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

phase diagramsliquid crystal elastomerselectro-mechanical couplingde Gennes order tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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