Modelling instabilities in electroelastic and magnetoelastic membranes: a very brief review

Abstract

The current state of the art for analytical and computational modelling of deformation in nonlinear electroelastic and magnetoelastic membranes is reviewed. A general framework and a list of methods to model large deformation and associated instabilities (wrinkling, limit point, global bifurcation) due to coupled electromechanical or magnetoemechanical loading is presented.