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Snap-through actuation of thick-wall electroactive balloons

Submitted by Stephan Rudykh on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 09:36

electromechanical instability

snap-through instability

large deformations

Snap-through actuation of thick-wall electroactive balloons

Stephan Rudykh ^(a)^, (c⁾, Kaushik Bhattacharya ^(c) and Gal deBotton ^(a)^, (b⁾

^(a) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel

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