iMechanica - Engineering Sciences 241: Advanced Elasticity - Comments

Dynamics of dielectric elastomers

Zhigang Suo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:01:44 -0400

Here are two papers:

Jian Zhu, Shengqiang Cai and Zhigang Suo. Resonant behavior of a membrane of a dielectric elastomer. International Journal of Solids and Structures 47, 3254-3262 (2010).

Jian Zhu, Shengqiang Cai and Zhigang Suo. Nonlinear oscillation of a dielectric elastomer balloon. Polymer International 59, 378-383 (2010).

Thank you for your valuble lectures

aaam — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:48:47 -0400

Thank you for your valuble lectures

Do you have any lecture about the the effects of both geometric and material nonlinearity in the mechanical dynamics modeling of EPA.

Regards,

Amir

Thanks for the detailed lecture

xubinice — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:54:53 -0400

this is the best and most systematic notes on machanics of soft mater I have ever seen, definitly will do great help to my future work!

thank you for information

Scoot — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:24:00 -0400

thank you for information

Very interesting course

MichelleLOyen — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:58:52 -0500

I wish there had been something like this when I was a student! It has been much my frustration that mechanics teaching has not tended towards softer materials, viscoelasticity, etc. I personally never had the chance to take a taught course in any of the subjects that I research or now am trying to teach, in polymer mechanics or time-dependence. Hopefully some time I'll be on sabbatical in the area when you are teaching this sort of module and I could sit in!

thanks Zhigang Suo

Muller Abera — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:33:24 -0400

share what we have

Engineering Sciences 241: Advanced Elasticity

Zhigang Suo — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:19:06 -0500

Spring 2011, Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 am - 11:30 am, Cruft Lab 309. First meeting of the class: 25 January 2011

Instructor: Zhigang Suo, 617-495-3789, suo@seas.harvard.edu, Pierce Hall 309.
Office hour: Tuesday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
No textbook is required.

This is a second graduate course in solid mechanics. The course builds on elements of thermodynamics, and explores coupled mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical actions. The course draws heavily upon phenomena in soft active materials.

This page is updated for ES 241 taught in Spring 2011. See also

Topics

Optional topics

Linear viscoelasticity (This topic is covered in ES 240. Please read the notes on your own.)
Finite deformation of viscoelastic materials
Electric potential
Deformation and polarization
Electrochemical potential
Polyelectrolyte gel
Linear perturbation
Heat conduction and finite deformation
Boltzmann distribution
Entropic elasticity of elastomers
Models of solution
Instabilities
Complex variable methods
String and elastica
Plate

Homework

Remarks

Prerequisite: ES 240 Solid Mechanics or equivalent.
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Online resources

Allan F. Bower, Applied Mechanics of Solids
Rohan Abeyaratne, Lecture notes on the mechanics of elastic solids
James R. Rice, Items developed for teaching
Zhigang Suo, ES 240 Solid Mechanics
Konstantin Volokh, Mechanics of Soft Materials: Lecture Notes
John Willis, Stability of media and structures