Biaxially stretched nematic liquid crystalline elastomers |
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Authors: | R. Diaz-Calleja E. Riande |
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Affiliation: | ITE, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. rdiazc@ter.upv.es |
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Abstract: | The biaxial stretching of sheets of liquid crystalline neo-Hookean elastomer has been studied in the isotropic case. The results suggest two types of laminate structures in the process of quasiconvexification of the free energy, a fact that implies the appearance of several shear terms in the deformation gradient matrix. More that one decomposition of the deformation gradient is possible, which is consistent with a bifurcation in the undeformed configuration (l lambda = 1) . This situation is similar to the well-known Rivlin’s problem of the triaxial symmetric traction of a neo-Hookean cube. The problem can easily be generalized for an anisotropic material by introducing a semisoft term in the free-energy expression. In this case, the horizontal plateau corresponding to the minimal energy, characteristic of the soft elasticity, disappears, and only an equilibrium condition is obtained. |
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