Computational Modeling of Intelligent Soft Matter
Shape Memory Polymers and Hydrogels

Introduces constitutive models based on continuum thermodynamics for intelligent soft materials, allowing readers to solve practical problems and design and analyze intelligent soft matter-based structures

Mostafa Baghani (Author), Majid Baniassadi (Author), Yves Rémond (Author)

9780443194207, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 22 February 2023

382 pages
27 x 18 x 2.4 cm, 0.61 kg

Computational Modelling of Intelligent Soft Matter: Shape Memory Polymers and Hydrogels covers the multiphysics response of various smart polymer materials, such as temperature-sensitive shape memory polymers and temperature/ chemosensitive hydrogels. Several thermo–chemo-mechanical constitutive models for these smart polymers are outlined, and their real-world applications are highlighted. The numerical counterpart of each introduced constitutive model is also presented, empowering readers to solve practical problems requiring thermomechanical responses of these materials as well as design and analyze real-world structures made of them.

1. Intelligent Soft Matters: Need for Numerical Modeling in Design and Analysis 2. A Detailed Review on Constitutive Models for Thermo-Responsive Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) 3. A Review on Constitutive Modeling of pH-Sensitive Hydrogels 4. Experiments on Shape Memory Polymers: Methods of Production, Shape Memory Effect Parameters, and Application 5. Shape Memory Polymers: Constitutive Modeling, Calibration, and Simulation 6. Shape Memory Polymer Composites: Nano-Composites and Corrugated Structures 7. Equiilibrium and Transient Swelling of Soft and Tough pH-Sensitive Hydrogels: Constitutive Modeling and FEM Implementation 8. Structural Analysis of Smart Hydrogels: Analytical Solutions and Finite Element Modeling 9. Structural Analysis of Different Smart Hydrogel Microvalves: The Effect of Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling

Subject Areas: Thermodynamics & heat [PHH]