Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites: Thermodynamical Modeling and Finite Element Solution

This thesis deals with developing a thermodynamically consistent model to simulate the electromechanical response of ionic polymer-metal composites based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. Constitutive assumptions are made for the Helmholtz free energy and the rate of dissipation. The governing equati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arumugam, Jayavel
Other Authors: Reddy, J. N.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11192