@article {46,
	title = {Large-strain poroelastic plate theory for polymer gels with applications to swelling-induced morphing of composite plates},
	journal = {Composites Part B: Engineering},
	volume = {115},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {330-340},
	abstract = {<p align="justify">We derive a large-strain plate model that allows to describe transient, coupled processes involving elasticity and solvent migration, by performing a dimensional reduction of a three-dimensional poroelastic theory. We apply the model to polymer gel plates, for which a specific kinematic constraint and constitutive relations hold. Finally, we assess the accuracy of the plate model with respect to the parent three-dimensional model through two numerical benchmarks, solved by means of the finite element method. Our results show that the theory offers an efficient computational framework for the study of swelling-induced morphing of composite gel plates.</p>},
	keywords = {large strain, plates, polymer gel, swelling},
	doi = {10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.09.063},
	author = {Alessandro Lucantonio and Giuseppe Tomassetti and Antonio DeSimone}
}
