A complete thermo-electro-viscoelastic characterization of dielectric elastomers, Part II: Continuum modeling approach

A comprehensive experimental study performed under a combination of thermo-electro-mechanical loads applied to widely used electro-active polymer, is presented in the Part I this work (Mehnert et al., 2021). Soft polymeric materials, as base materials polymers, are highly susceptible temperature changes. Hence, thermal influences on their behavior have be investigated precisely. Constitutive modeling and numerical simulation polymers active fields current research. However, one hand, complex loading conditions non-trivial. On other very few constitutive approaches meet with data obtained from conditions. In contribution, we aim develop thermo-electro-mechanically coupled model, which will closely replicate response an polymer thermal, electric mechanical loads. Once model calibrated described it validated different set data, shows excellent agreement findings.