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Most hydrogels exhibit coupled chemo-mechanical behaviors when in an aqueous environment with changing salt concentrations. This work presents a theoretical framework and a numerical procedure to describe the coupled mechanical deformation and solvent diffusion of such ion-sensitive hydrogels. A new variational formulation for the coupled governing equations is formulated by implementing the coupled formulations in a finite element procedure in Eulerian frame and further the time-dependent concurrent process of mechanical deformation and solvent diffusion is numerically investigated. The proposed numerical method is demonstrated by analyzing several chemo-mechanical coupling phenomena of initially-swollen hydrogels, such as transient free-swelling and indentation with a spherical punch. The results show that the present model is capable of simulating transient free-swelling and solvent migration in such smart materials subjected to externally-applied mechanical forces.
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING
ISSN: 0277-786X
Year: 2012
Volume: 8409
Language: English
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