Abstract Beams, plates, and shells, as the fundamental mechanical structures, are widely used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) sensors, actuators, energy harvesters, among others. Deeply understand electromechanical coupling of these dielectric structures is crucial for designing, fabricating, optimizing practice devices systems. Herein we demonstrate flexoe...

2014 We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal phase, submitted to a D.C. electric field. The strong radial polarization, related to the permanent bend of the tubes, does not contribute to the texture distortion, by symmetry. The tubes undergo simply a divergence distortion, the tube circles being shifted from one to another, towards th...

Flexoelectric liquid crystalline membranes immersed in asymmetric viscoelastic media is a material system model with physiological applications such as outer hair cells (OHCs), where membrane oscillations generate bulk flow. Motivated by this process, here we extend our previous work characterizing the force transmission output of addition to fluid flow, since solid–fluid interactions are an es...

Abstract The focus of this work is to study the influence flexoelectric phenomenon on electromechanical response graphene-reinforced nanocomposite (GNC) nanorods. An analytical model has been derived by utilizing Timoshenko beam theory and principle variational incorporating effects. GNC nanorod subjected a concentrated load acting downward for clamped-free simply supported support types. reinf...