Continuum electromechanical theory for nematic continua with application to Freedericksz instability

DOI10.1007/s10659-017-9665-yzbMath1395.74004OpenAlexW2782118376MaRDI QIDQ1782204

G. Pampolini, Nicholas Triantafyllidis

Publication date: 19 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-017-9665-y

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityvariational formulationasymptotic analysiselectromechanical theorynematic continua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Micromechanical theories (74A60) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20) Equations linearized about a deformed state (small deformations superposed on large) (74B15)

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