Rubber components and soft biological tissues are often subjected to large bending
deformations while “in service”. The circumferential line elements on the inner face of a bent …

Sensitive hydrogel bilayers have recently been used for many purposes, such as sensors
and actuators etc. In this paper, an innovative analytical technique is introduced to study the …

Abstract 4D printing of flat sheets that self-fold into architected 3D structures is a powerful
origami-inspired approach for the fabrication of multi-functional devices and metamaterials …

This paper studies the collapse of a void in an elastomer caused by osmosis. The void is
filled with liquid water, while the elastomer is surrounded by unsaturated air. The difference …

Soft pneumatic actuators possess attributes of large deformation, high driving force and light
weight in the application of soft robots and smart devices. However, most reported soft …

A sandwiched dielectric elastomer actuator consisting of a hyperelastic material layer and
two pre-stretched dielectric elastomer layers is introduced in this work, which is bi …

We investigate the finite bending of a bilayer gel in response to temperature under plane
strain condition. We demonstrate that our model based on finite elasticity predicts larger …

Temperature-sensitive hydrogels have recently been implemented vastly for biomedical and
microfluidic sensors and actuators. The accurate and efficient design of the bilayer sensors …

In this paper the analysis for the anticlastic bending under constant curvature of nonlinear
solids and beams, presented by Lanzoni, Tarantino (J. Elast. 131: 137–170, 2018), is …

Recently bilayer smart hydrogel beams are widely used in various applications such as
sensors, actuators, self-folding structures and switches. Developing a strong tool for …