Magneto-Active Polymers: Fabrication, characterisation, modelling and simulation at the micro- and macro-scale

✍ Scribed by Jean-Paul Pelteret; Paul Steinmann

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From fabrication to testing and modeling this monograph covers all aspects on the materials class of magneto active polymers. The focus is on computational modeling of manufacturing processes and material parameters. As other smart materials, these elastomers have the ability to change electrical and mechanical properties upon application of magnetic fields. This allows for novel applications ranging from biomedical engineering to mechatronics.

• First coverage of fabrication processes, characterization tools and methods to model properties of magnetic elastomers.
• Documents results of ERC grant MOCOPOLY.
• Rich in multi-physics (electrodynamics, mechanics of soft matter) on a multi-scale.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgment
Contents
Acronyms
Notation
Table of Units
1. Introduction
2. Fabrication of magneto-active polymer composites
3. Experimental apparatus and testing procedure
4. Magneto-mechanical characterisation of magneto-active polymer composites
5. Introduction to continuum magneto-mechanics
6. General aspects of computational simulation of coupled problems
7. Constitutive modelling
8. Phenomenological modelling of the curing process
9. Homogenisation
10. Modelling and computational simulation at the micro-scale
11. Modelling and computational simulation at the macro-scale
12. Further reading
A. Identities
B. Calculus
C. Derivations and proofs
Bibliography
Image reproduction
Index