WAVES IN PRE-STRETCHED INCOMPRESSIBLE SOFT ELECTROACTIVE CYLINDERS:EXACT SOLUTION

This paper studies wave propagation in a soft electroactive cylinder with an underlying finite deformation in the presence of an electric biasing field.Based on a recently proposed nonlinear framework for electroelasticity and the associated linear incremental theory,the basic equations governing the axisymmetric wave motion in the cylinder,which is subjected to homogeneous pre-stretches and pre-existing axial electric displacement,are presented when the electroactive material is isotropic and incompressible.Exact wave solution is then derived in terms of(modified) Bessel functions.For a prototype model of nonlinear electroactive material,illustrative numerical results are given.It is shown that the effect of pre-stretch and electric biasing field could be significant on the wave propagation characteristics.