Force-free states, relative strain, and soft elasticity in nematic elastomers

DOI10.1023/A:1027377904576zbMath1171.74308OpenAlexW1485839991MaRDI QIDQ1418785

Donald E. Carlson, Shaun Sellers, Eliot Fried

Publication date: 14 January 2004

Published in: Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1027377904576

zbMATH Keywords

microstructureconstitutive theoryrelative strainsoft elasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20)

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