Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "elastomers"

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    • Elastic leak of a seal 

      Liu, Qihan; Wang, Zhengjin; Lou, Yucun; Suo, Zhigang (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      An elastomeric seal may leak by elastic deformation without any material damage. We describe elastic leak using a theoretical model, and watch a seal deform and leak using a transparent experimental setup. The elastomer ...

    • Giant, Voltage-Actuated Deformation of a Dielectric Elastomer under Dead Load 

      Huang, Jiangshui; Li, Tiefeng; Foo, Choon Chiang; Zhu, Jian; Clarke, David R.; Suo, Zhigang (American Institute of Physics, 2012)
      Far greater voltage-actuated deformation is achievable for a dielectric elastomer under equal-biaxial dead load than under rigid constraint usually employed. Areal strains of 488% are demonstrated. The dead load suppresses ...

    • Soft Actuators and Robots that Are Resistant to Mechanical Damage 

      Martinez, Ramses; Glavan, Ana C; Keplinger, Christoph; Oyetibo, Alexis I.; Whitesides, George McClelland (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
      This paper characterizes the ability of soft pneumatic actuators and robots to resist mechanical insults that would irreversibly damage or destroy hard robotic systems—systems fabricated in metals and structural polymers, ...

    • Soft Robotics for Chemists 

      Ilievski, Filip; Mazzeo, Aaron D.; Shepherd, Robert F.; Chen, Xin; Whitesides, George McClelland (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      Soft robots: A methodology based on embedded pneumatic networks (PneuNets) is described that enables large-amplitude actuations in soft elastomers by pressurizing embedded channels. Examples include a structure that can ...