A hyperelastic pressure transducer is fabricated by embedding silicone rubber with microchannels of conductive liquid eutectic gallium–indium. Pressing the surface of the elastomer with pressures in the range of 0–100 kPa will deform the cross-section of underlying channels and change their electric resistance by as much as 50%. Microchannels with dimensions as small as 25 μm are obtained with ...

some numerical and experimental investigations are made on the performance of five different hyperelastic constitutive models (second order polynomial, yeoh, arruda-boyce, ogden and marlow) in tension and compressionmodes. first, the results of the tensile and compression tests on a rubber sample were used to determine the parameters of the models by curve fitting methods. next, by using an alg...

In the paper, a novel magneto-electro-elastic model of bi-directional (2D) functionally graded materials (FGMs) beams is developed for investigating nonlinear dynamics. It shown that asymmetric modes induced by 2D FGMs may significantly affect dynamic responses, which tremendously different from previous studies. Taking into account geometric nonlinearity, equation motion and associated boundar...

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are composed of metals and ceramics in which the distribution material components varies according to a particular volumetric function. FGMs often used high-temperature applications. In our study, models were created Artificial Neural Network depending on equivalent stress levels compositional gradient exponent, is most important parameter determining thermo...

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) assays are a popular means of monitoring adrenocortical activity (i.e., physiological stress response) in wildlife. Species-specific differences in glucocorticoid metabolism and excretion require assay validation, including both laboratory and biological components, before assay use in new species. We validated a commercially available radioimmunoassay (MP ...

This paper presents an overview on applications of hybrid finite element method to thermal analysis of heterogeneous materials. Recent developments on the hybrid fundamental solution based finite element model (FEM) of heat transfer in nonlinear functionally graded materials (FGMs) and composite materials are described. Formulations for all cases are derived by means of modified variational fun...