...Uttam Kumar Chakravarty; Roberto Albertani This paper investigates the modal characteristics of a latex membrane for micro air vehicles applications. Finite element (FE) models are developed for characterizing the latex membrane at dynamic loading and validated by experimental results. The membrane...

... smaller when the viscosity ratio becomes larger or the swelling ratio becomes smaller and that the present results show quantitatively good agreement with other results. Then, the effects of membrane modeling are discussed from the mechanics point of view. There are two types of modeling for the lipid...

... sheets. As such, the loading on graphite at the nanoscale is characterized by the membrane force, the bending moment, and the shear force in the graphene sheets. Cylindrical nanoindentation of graphite is analyzed by applying a special boundary element method that employs Green’s function for multilayers...

... formulation that incorporates large deformations, material nonlinearity, and electrical effects is derived using Maxwell-Faraday electrostatics and nonlinear elasticity. The analytical model is used to numerically solve for the resultant behavior of an inflatable dielectric elastomer membrane, subject...