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John Albert Faccinto¹, Jongcheol Lee¹, Kwang J Kim¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.

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Summary

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-dibutyl adipate (DBA) gels show tunable mechanical properties for soft robotics. Increasing plasticizer content reduces elastic modulus and Poisson

Keywords:

EPIC actuator PVC gel tensile modeling PVC modeling PVC-DBA Poisson’s ratio dielectric elastomer actuator elastic modulus hyperelastic modeling

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Polymer Science
Robotics Engineering

Background:

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are crucial for soft robotics.
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-dibutyl adipate (DBA) gels are promising DEAs.
Understanding their constitutive relationships is vital for actuator design.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the elastic and hyperelastic behavior of PVC-DBA gels under tensile loading.
To determine how plasticizer content affects the mechanical properties of PVC gels.
To establish a constitutive model for PVC-DBA gels in soft robotics applications.

Main Methods:

Synthesized PVC-DBA gels with varying plasticizer-to-polymer ratios (2:1 to 8:1 w/w).
Conducted tensile tests to measure elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio.
Evaluated hyperelastic constitutive models including Neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, Yeoh, Gent, Ogden, and extended tube models.

Main Results:

PVC gels exhibit linear elasticity up to 25% strain.
Elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio decrease with increasing plasticizer content.
The Yeoh hyperelastic model demonstrated the highest feasibility for modeling up to 3.5 stretch.

Conclusions:

PVC-DBA gels possess tunable mechanical properties influenced by plasticizer concentration.
The findings provide a constitutive basis for designing PVC-DBA based actuators.
Network structure analysis offers insights for accurate modeling of dielectric elastomer actuators.