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Dr. M. D. Bartlett, Dr. A. Fassler, Prof. C. Majidi Soft Machines Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh , PA 15213 , USA E-mail: [email protected] N. Kazem Soft Machines Lab Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh , PA 15213 , USA E. J. Markvicka Soft Machines Lab The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon...

Elastomers are one of the most important materials in modern society because of the inherent viscoelastic properties due to their cross-linked polymer chains. Their vibration-absorbing and adhesive properties are especially useful and thus utilized in various applications, for example, tires in automobiles and bicycles, seismic dampers in buildings, and seals in a space shuttle. Thus, the nonde...

Dielectric elastomer transducers are being developed for applications in stretchable electronics, tunable optics, biomedical devices, and soft machines. These transducers exhibit highly nonlinear electromechanical behavior: a dielectric membrane under voltage can formwrinkles, undergo snap-through instability, and suffer electrical breakdown. We investigate temporal evolution and instability by...

The optical parameters (refractive index, absorption coefficient) of opaque dielectric materials can be measured with terahertz (THz) Time-Domain spectroscopy (TDS). By using a THz beam of known polarization and measuring both components of the transmitted THz field, it is possible to determine the birefringence present in an anisotropic material. In this work we used polarization sensitive (PS...