Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 487-508Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.11.006
Keywords
Postbuckling; Stretchable electronics; Higher-order terms in curvature; Lateral buckling; Diagonal stretching
Funding
- NSF [ECCS-0824129, OISE-1043143]
- DOE, Division of Materials Sciences [DE-FG02-07ER46453]
- NSFC [11172146]
- Ministry of Education, China
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [824129] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A versatile strategy for fabricating stretchable electronics involves controlled buckling of bridge structures in circuits that are configured into open, mesh layouts (i.e. islands connected by bridges) and bonded to elastomeric substrates. Quantitative analytical mechanics treatments of the responses of these bridges can be challenging, due to the range and diversity of possible motions. Koiter (1945) pointed out that the postbuckling analysis needs to account for all terms up to the 4th power of displacements in the potential energy. Existing postbuckling analyses, however, are accurate only to the 2nd power of displacements in the potential energy since they assume a linear displacement-curvature relation. Here, a systematic method is established for accurate postbuckling analysis of beams. This framework enables straightforward study of the complex buckling modes under arbitrary loading, such as lateral buckling of the island-bridge, mesh structure subject to shear (or twist) or diagonal stretching observed in experiments. Simple, analytical expressions are obtained for the critical load at the onset of buckling, and for the maximum bending, torsion (shear) and principal strains in the structure during postbuckling. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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