Control and Analysis of Swelling Deformation of Hydrogel Beams Through Multilayer Design
Xiangchuan Nian,
Wei Rao,
Xia Liu
et al.
Abstract:In this paper, we suggest a design strategy for multilayer hydrogel beams with controllable swelling deformation and bending, which can be used in soft devices. We adopt a constitutive model that considers the entanglement chains of the hydrogel and an analytical method for solving multilayer hydrogel beams is developed. First, the reliability of the design strategy is provided by comparing analytical solutions and numerical results. Then, guided by the above design strategy, we quantitatively investigate hydr… Show more
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