摘要
Dielectric elastomers have found interesting applications in soft loudspeakers,where vibrations subject to alternating electrical excitations are the key features.Although there are many t heore tical studies on the nonlinear vibrations of dielec trie elasto mers subject to electromechanical coupling loads,the systematic experimental research is rare.In this work,we design a simple experimental setup to observe the out-of-plane vibrations of a circular dielec trie elastomer actuator.We find that the dielec trie elastomer has different response modes including the harmonic,super-harmonic and sub-harmonic responses at different excitation frequencies.We analyze the responses by using the short-time Fourier transformation.We find that the equivalent voltage and the AC/DC ratio are the main parameters affecting the occurrence of sub-harmonic responses.The phenomenon of mode shift is also observed in our experiments.These experimental observations provide a deeper unders tanding of the dynamic responses of dielec trie elasto mer subject to electromechanical loads.
