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3D bending simulation and mechanical properties of the OLED bending area
Open Physics 2020; 18: 397–407

Research Article

Liang Ma* and Jinan Gu

3D bending simulation and mechanical
properties of the OLED bending area
https://doi.org/10.1515/phys-2020-0165                                  devices are attracting more and more attention [1]. People
received November 27, 2019; accepted May 30, 2020                       have higher requirements with respect to power consump-
Abstract: Due to the poor mechanical properties of traditional          tion, volume, softness, and other aspects of display devices.
simulation models of the organic light-emitting device (OLED)           Display devices originated from cathode ray tubes (CRTs). In
bending area, this article puts forward a finite element model           a CRT, electron flow bombards the screen, so that R, G, and
of 3D bending simulation of the OLED bending area. During               B phosphors give out light in proportion, thus producing
the model construction, it is necessary to determine the                different colors. Since the birth of the CRT technology in
viscoelastic and hyperelastic mechanical properties, respec-            1897, CRTs were applied in radar display and electronic
tively. In order to accurately obtain the stress changes of             oscilloscopes at first, and then they were popularized in TVs
material deformation during the hyperelasticity determina-              and computers, becoming the most mainstream display
tion, a uniaxial tensile test and a shear test were used to             terminals in the twentieth century [2]. Although CRTs have
obtain data and thus to characterize the hyperelastic proper-           strong advantages in terms of cost and image quality, their
ties. In order to measure the viscoelasticity, a stress relaxation      weight, volume, radiation, and energy consumption limit
test was used to draw the stress relaxation curve, so as to             their development. The dominant position of CRTs is
characterize the viscoelastic properties. Then, the plane or            gradually replaced by flat panel displays (FPDs). Compared
axisymmetric stress–strain analysis was achieved, and the               with the traditional CRTs, FPDs have many advantages,
material parameters of the 3D model of the OLED bending                 such as small size, light weight, and low energy consump-
area were obtained. Finally, the 3D model was applied to the            tion. In recent years, FPDs have developed rapidly. Liquid
3D bending of the OLED bending area. Combined with the                  crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma display panels (PDPs)
axisymmetric finite element analysis method, the 3D bending              are the most representative display devices. A pixel in an
simulation finite element model of the OLED bending area                 LCD panel is composed of three LCD units. Each LCD unit
was constructed by dividing the finite element mesh.                     contains a red filter, green filter, or blue filter. Different
Experimental results show that the mechanical properties of             colors can be generated by controlling the light in different
the proposed model are better than those of traditional OLED            units [3]. An LCD is thinner than a CRT, which greatly saves
bending simulation models. Meanwhile, the proposed model                space and avoids the radiation problem. In the aspect of
has stronger application advantages.                                    screen refresh rate, a CRT kinescope adopts light-emitting
                                                                        materials. No matter how high the refresh frequency is, it
Keywords: OLED, bending area, 3D bending simulation,                    will lead to the flicker problem. Direct imaging technology
mechanical property                                                     for LCDs does not cause flicker, so it is more suitable for
                                                                        human eyes. In addition, an LCD is a form of flat screen, and
                                                                        the display effect is much better than that of a CRT.
1 Introduction                                                          However, LCDs also have some disadvantages in terms of
                                                                        resolution, viewing angle, color saturation, brightness, and
With the rapid development of information age, the infor-               reaction speed [4]. A pixel in a PDP is a plasma tube. The
mation display technology has become an important branch                plasma gas discharges in the plasma tube, producing
of the information industry. As information carriers, display           ultraviolet light and exciting the phosphor on the fluor-
                                                                        escent screen. A PDP is a kind of self-luminous display
                                                                      technology without backlight, which overcomes the pro-
* Corresponding author: Liang Ma, School of Mechanical
                                                                        blems of visual angle and brightness of LCDs. It is easy to
Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212000, China,
e-mail: maliang72@163.com
                                                                        manufacture large-scale screens with excellent performance.
Jinan Gu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University,         However, PDPs have some problems in terms of service life,
Zhenjiang 212000, China                                                 power consumption, and cost.

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     Although LCDs, PDPs, and other displays solve the       small, and the stress changes little with deformation.
problems of CRTs in terms of volume, weight, radiation,      The measurement scheme is suitable for traditional
and screen refresh rate, they still need to be improved in   hyperelastic materials, such as rubber, but it cannot be
the aspects of energy consumption, viewing angle, and        completely suitable for the OCA material due to the
brightness. In recent years, LCDs and PDPs have been         measurement accuracy. In order to accurately find the
unable to meet the growing demand for display                stress changes during the material deformation, it is
functionality, especially flexible displays [5].              necessary to adopt appropriate instruments and mea-
     The display of an organic light-emitting device         surement schemes. For example, a uniaxial tensile test
(OLED) is thinner (its thickness is less than 500 nm),       and a simple shear test are used to obtain data and thus
and it has the advantages of self-illumination, short        to characterize the hyperelastic properties. When deter-
response time, large viewing angle, lifelike picture, high   mining the viscoelasticity, we can use the stress
definition, and low energy consumption. It is a planar        relaxation test to get the stress relaxation curve, so as
device and is highly compatible with plastic substrates.     to characterize the viscoelastic properties. Thus, the
During its preparation, low-temperature technology is        plane or axisymmetric stress–strain analysis is carried
adopted to achieve a flexible display. Compared with          out [9].
other flexible displays, it has prominent advantages, as a
result of which it gradually became the first choice of
flexible displays. In addition, it is rated as the most       2.1.1 Determination and fitting of hyperelastic material
potential FPD lighting technology. However, an OLED                parameters
display is a composite structure composed of thin-film
optical devices, and an optical clear adhesive (OCA) is      The uniaxial tensile test and simple shear test were used
used to make the bonding of all film layers more firm          to determine the hyperelasticity of materials. Dynamic
[6,7]. An OCA is a special adhesive used for cementing       mechanical analysis (DMA) was applied to the uniaxial
transparent optical elements. It is required to have         tensile test. A rotational rheometer was applied in the
colorless transparency, light transmittance above 90%,       simple shear test.
good cementing strength, curing at room temperature or            The thickness h of the specimens prepared by two
medium temperature, and curing shrinkage. In the             tests is 1 mm. The measurement method is the same as
process of bending deformation, the bending radius of        the viscoelastic measurement. The OCA samples are
flexible OLED modules is small. Meanwhile, various            stacked and pasted, and then the specimens are cut as
thin-film devices cannot coordinate the deformation. The      per the requirements of the chucking appliance [10].
OCA adhesive material has viscous flow, leading to            Table 1 shows the size and instrument models of uniaxial
device stripping and permanent damage to the screen          tensile specimens. Table 2 shows the specifications and
[8]. Therefore, a 3D bending simulation model of the         instrument models of simple shear specimens. When
OLED bending area was built to research the mechanical       DMA is adopted for the tensile test, the tensile rate refers
properties.                                                  to ASTM D412. When the rotary rheometer is adopted for
                                                             the simple shear test, the shear strain rate is 0.01 s−1.
                                                                  The original data obtained from the experiment are
                                                             shown in Tables 1 and 2. After processing the data, we
2 Construction of a finite element                            can get the stress data and strain data. The specific
                                                             calculation is shown below.
  model of 3D bending simulation                                  In the uniaxial tensile test, the formula for proces-
  of the OLED bending area                                   sing stress σT and strain εT is as follows:

                                                                                           l − l0
                                                                                     εT = l
2.1 Parameter measurement and fitting of                                              
                                                                                                0
                                                                                                   ,                  (1)
    the OCA material                                                                  σT =   f
                                                                                     
                                                                                            bh

An OCA is a kind of viscoelastic material. It is necessary   where l0 is the original length of the specimen, l is the
to measure its viscoelastic and hyperelastic mechanical      length of the specimen after stretching, f is the tensile
properties separately. In the determination of hypere-       load, h is the thickness of the specimen, and b is the
lasticity, the elastic modulus of the OCA material is too    tensile rate.
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Table 1: Specimen size and instrument model of the uniaxial tension test

Serial number                              Instrument type                                                    DMA TA RSA-G2

1                                          Sample shape and size                                              Long strip sample, l = 60 mm, B = 6 mm
2                                          Testing accuracy                                                   0.02 mN

Table 2: Specimen size and instrument model of the simple shearing test

Serial number                                 Instrument type                                                        Rotational rheometer TA DHR-2

1                                             Sample shape and size                                                  Disc specimen, radius r = 40 mm
2                                             Testing accuracy                                                       0.01 mN

                                                                                                                                Simple tensile test
    In the simple shearing test, the formula for proces-
                                                                                                                                Uniaxial fitting results
sing stress σS and strain γS is as follows:                                                   0.04                              Shear fit results
                                                                                                                                Simple shear experiment
                                   rϕ                                                        0.035
                           γS =    h ,
                                                               (2)
                            σS =    2τ                                                        0.03
                           
                                   πr 3
                                                                      Nominal stress / MPa

                                                                                             0.025
where r is the torque of the parallel plate, φ is the
rotational displacement of the parallel plate, r is the                                       0.02

radius, and τ is the shear strain rate.
                                                                                             0.015
     The stress and strain formulas of different strain
energy density function models under uniaxial tension                                         0.01
mode and simple shearing mode are obtained by
derivation. The derivation formulas are comparable                                           0.005
with experimental data, and the hyperelastic parameter
                                                                                                0
fitting can be achieved [1].
                                                                                                      0   1            2                  3            4
     Through the mathematical software 1Stopt, the
                                                                                                                  Nominal strain / 100%
formula of stress–strain constitutive relation can be
derived. Combined with the experimental data, the                     Figure 1: Fitting results.
fitting results under different strain energy density
functions are obtained [11]. After the comparison of the              an incompressible material, rather than a completely
fitting quality and the judgment of simulation conver-                 incompressible material in theoretical sense [13].
gence, the reduced polynomial model with N = 3 order is
adopted. The fitting results are shown in Figure 1.
     We can see that the simple shear test data are                   2.1.2 Determination and fitting of viscoelastic material
basically consistent with the simple shear fitting result.                   parameters
There is a slight difference between the data of the
uniaxial tensile test and the uniaxial tensile fitting results,        DMA is applied to the viscoelastic stress relaxation test.
but they are consistent in the overall trend. On the whole,           During the test, the specimens are prepared first. The
the fitting effect is very good. After the fitting, relevant             thickness of specimens in the DMA test should not be less
parameters of the strain energy density function are                  than 1 mm, while the thickness of the OCA specimen should
obtained. The fitting parameters are shown in Table 3 [12].            be less than 0.05 mm. Therefore, it is necessary that the OCA
     To be clear, the OCA material is an incompressible               sample should be cemented, so that the thickness can reach
material. Poisson’s ratio v is 0.5. At this time, parameter D1        1 mm. Then, we cut the shape of specimens according to the
should be zero. In Abaqus, for materials whose Poisson’s              requirements of fixtures and then we can obtain the
ratio v is greater than 0.475, Poisson’s ratio v is considered        specimens for the experiments. The specification and
to be 0.475. That is to say, the material is approximated as          instrument model are shown in Table 4.
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Table 3: Fitting parameters of the hyperelastic Yeoh model
                                                                                                                                                               Normalized
                                                                                                                                                             experimental data
                                                                                                                        0.8
Name                                 Fitting parameters
                                                                                                                                                               Fitting result
                C10         C20            C30          D1     D2 D3                                                    0.7

                                                                          Normalized relaxation modulus of elasticity
Numerical       0.01061 −0.00012 1.7318                 4.79455 0   0                                                   0.6
value                            × 10−6
                                                                                                                        0.5

    Then, the simple shearing experiment is carried out.                                                                0.4
A 5% instantaneous shear deformation is given to the
specimen. It is unchanged, and the change of stress is                                                                  0.3

recorded. The data are normalized using equation (3),
                                                                                                                        0.2
and then the data are input into Abaqus for fitting. The
result is shown in Figure 2 [14].                                                                                       0.1
                                     N
                      g (t ) = 1 −   ∑ gi(1 − e−t /τ ),
                                                    i               (3)                                                 0
                                                                                                                              0        50         100          150               200
                                     i=1
                                                                                                                                                   Time /s
where g(t) is the relaxed modulus of elasticity after
                                                                          Figure 2: Fitting results.
normalization, t is the relaxation time, N is the number
of terms of the Prony series, gi and τi are the parameters
in the model, e is the shear threshold, and i is a constant.              Table 5: Prony parameters based on viscoelastic fitting
     For the viscoelastic fitting process of the material, it is
only necessary to nondimensionalize the experimental data                 i                                                   1        2           3            4                5
of stress relaxation in Abaqus, and thus to achieve the plane
                                                                          gi                                                  0.5902   0.1461      0.1115        0.0643            0.0352
or axisymmetric stress–strain analysis. After input, Prony                τi                                                  0.0188   0.2084      1.8675       19.167           233.07
parameters gi and τi can be obtained by fitting. Finally, the
viscoelastic properties are given to the materials.
     It can be seen that the fitting curve basically                       wiring at the end of the bending area is used to transmit
coincides with the experimental data curve after the                      and control the electric signal of the light-emitting diodes
normalization. The fitting quality is very good. After                     in the OLED display area. There are huge amounts of metal
fitting, Prony parameters gi and τi are obtained (Table 5).                wires deposited in the organic photoresist [15]. The
                                                                          structure of the bending area is shown in Figure 3.
                                                                               According to the structural characteristics of the
                                                                          OLED bending area, OCA material parameters and
2.2 Construction of the 3D model of the                                   membrane material parameters are obtained. The OCA
    OLED bending area                                                     material parameters are shown in Figure 4.
                                                                               The parameters of membrane materials are shown in
2.2.1 Material parameters                                                 Table 6.

The structure of the OLED bending area is mainly                          2.2.2 Construction of the 3D model
composed of an organic photoresist, metal wiring, and a
polyimide (PI) substrate. The metal wiring at the end of the              In order to simplify the OLED bending area, meso-
structure is deposited in the organic photoresist. The metal              structure information is introduced to characterize the

Table 4: Specimen size and instrument model

Serial number                                    Instrument type                                                                            DMA TA RSA-G2

1                                                Sample shape and size                                                                      Long strip sample, l = 50 mm, B = 5 mm
2                                                Testing accuracy                                                                           0.01 mN
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                                                                  Table 6: Parameters of membrane materials

                                                                  Back panel material    Modulus of              Poisson’s ratio
                                                                                         elasticity (GPa)

                                                                  Protective cover        5.6                    0.29
                                                                  plate
                                                                  Touch layer             4.076                  0.31
                                                                  Polarizer               3.769                  0.33
                                                                  Display layer          49                      0.30
                                                                  Substrate               9.1                    0.33
                                                                  Backplane               4.2                    0.32

Figure 3: Structure of the OLED bending area.

    Protective cover plate-60 µm

           OCA-25 µm
                                                                  Figure 5: 3D model of the bending area.
        Touch layer-50 µm

           OCA-25 µm                                              Table 7: Geometric parameters
          Polarizer-47 µm
                                                                  Serial number         Material layer          Thickness (µm)
           OCA-20 µm
                                                                  1                     Organic photoresist      4.5
        Display layer-10 µm
                                                                  2                     Metal alignment          0.73
          Substrate-15 µm
                                                                  3                     Substrate material       1.5
           OCA-25 µm                                              4                     PI substrate            15

         Backplane-75 µm
                                                                      For the 3D model of the bending area, the geometric
                                                                  parameters of relevant metal lines and material layers
Figure 4: OCA rubber parameters.                                  are shown in Table 7.

properties of the bending area. The micromechanics of
materials are based on the relationship between the
macromechanical properties of materials and the micro-            2.3 Construction of the finite element
structure. Therefore, the macroproperties can be                      model of 3D bending simulation of the
achieved by optimizing the design of the microstructure.              OLED bending area
The structure region at the end of the OLED has obvious
periodic characteristics [16]. According to the character-        2.3.1 3D bending for the OLED bending area
ization of the microstructure, the microstructure of the
end structure of the OLED can be composed of an                   The 3D model of the OLED bending area is combined
organic photoresist, single metal wire, substrate mate-           with the axisymmetric principle, and the OLED bending
rial, and PI substrate. Thus, the 3D model of the bending         area is bent in the 3D mode, so that the lower part of the
area is built as shown in Figure 5.                               screen is able to fit with the middle frame. Thus, the
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                        150

                                             screen

   Reference                                   Rigid
     point                                     body

Figure 6: Bending structure and size.

screen rotation is achieved. The middle frame can be
regarded as a rigid body. In order to form a circular arc at
the bending part and reduce the structure stress, the
distance between the reference point and the symmetry axis
          π
is set as 4 R mm . When R is 5 mm, the distance is 7.85 mm.
The structure and size are shown in Figure 6 [17].
                                                               Figure 8: 3D bending simulation model of the OLED bending area.
     In the first second, the rigid body rotates antic-
lockwise around the reference point, at a speed of
1.57 rad/s. At the same time, the rigid body moves to the      After bending, the 3D bending simulation model of the
                   π                                         OLED bending area is built as shown in Figure 8.
left at a speed of  4 − 1 R mm. The shape after bending
                         
is shown in Figure 7. After that, it is placed for 300 s to
simulate the actual use.                                       2.3.2 Grid partition based on axisymmetric finite
     When the bending radius R = 5 mm, the boundary                  element analysis
condition is that in the first second, the rigid body
rotates anticlockwise around the reference point at a          According to the 3D bending simulation model of
speed of 1.57 rad/s, and then it moves to the left at a        the OLED bending area, the finite element model of
speed of 2.85 mm/s. Finally, it is placed for 300 s.           the three-dimensional bending process is built. First, the
                                                               axisymmetric finite element analysis method is used to
                                                               generate the finite element meshes. After bending, the
                                                               difference between the internal metal wiring width in the
                                                               OLED bending area and the overall size is large. It is
                                                               more difficult to generate finite element meshes [18]. It is
                                                               easy to ignore some characteristics of the metal wiring
           screen          Rigid
                           body                                structure by using the whole grid division method,
                                                               influencing the analysis of different metal wiring
                                                               structures negatively. It is not able to reflect the
                                                               structural differences of different metal wires. Combined
                                                               with the principle of axisymmetric finite element
      R5                                                       analysis, the implicit dynamic viscoelastic analysis
                                                               method was adopted for the grid division. In order to
                                                               be consistent with the actual stress situation, the plane
                              Reference
                                point                          strain grids are adopted. During the mesh generation,
                                                               the network is quadrilateral, which is convenient for
                                                               convergence and calculation. The grid size is 0.025 mm.
                                                               All the membrane materials and OCA materials are
                                                               divided into three layers. The grid type includes the
                                                               plane strain unit, hybrid unit, and CPE8RH reduced
                                                               integration unit.
                                                                    A HyperMesh platform with powerful finite element
Figure 7: Shape after bending.                                 preprocessing ability is used for the OLED bending area.
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A hexahedron mesh method is used to divide the metal
wires and other areas. This can effectively reduce the
number of meshes. On this basis, progressive grid
division is adopted to ensure the accuracy of the
calculated structure and thus to reduce the calculation
time. All units in the model are linear hexahedron
elements with complete integration [19].
      Generally, the accuracy of grid division directly influ-
ences the accuracy of the result. The finer the mesh division
is, the more accurate the result is. When the grid is too dense,
the computer overhead will increase and the computing time
will also increase. For the explicit dynamics, the consumption     Figure 10: Finite element meshes after the detailed division.
of computer memory and computing time are directly
proportional to the number of grid units. The computing            The details of the division of finite element meshes after
cost increases with the improvement of grid subdivision, so        the OLED bending are shown in Figure 11.
that we can directly predict the cost change caused by grid
subdivision. For the implicit dynamics, the computing cost is
roughly proportional to the square of the number of freedom        2.3.3 Finite element modeling
degrees. The consumption of memory and computing time
will have an exponential relationship with the number of grid      Refined finite element meshes are used to build the
units. It is difficult to predict the cost. The change is obvious.   three-dimensional bending simulation finite element
On the basis of accuracy, a reasonable grid density can            model of the OLED bending area. During the finite
greatly optimize the computing cost. For the structure of
the OLED bending area, on the premise of reflecting the
structural features of the metal wire, we must refine the grid
as much as possible, so that the grid size can ensure the
computing accuracy without consuming too much com-
puting resource [20]. Due to the ratio of the length and
thickness of the OLED bending area after bending, the
number of metal wiring meshes is still huge on the basis of
accuracy, consuming too much computer resource. In order
to improve the accuracy of calculation and analysis, a sub-
model is used to divide the structure of the OLED bending
area after bending. There are 26 × 30 divided finite element
grids, as shown in Figure 9.
      On this basis, the finite element meshes are divided
in detail. The specific results are shown in Figure 10.

                                                                   Figure 11: Details of the finite element mesh after the detailed
Figure 9: Finite element mesh.                                     division: (a) details of finite element mesh and (b) enlarged details.
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element simulation, the setting of boundary condition                                                       load
directly influences the success of simulation. This is also
an extremely important part of finite element simulation.
In the finite element simulation, there are two ways to        Global boundary
                                                                conditions
realize the periodic boundary: (1) coupling corre-
sponding surface nodes. This method has higher
requirements for serial number of nodes, but it can
reduce constraints and improve calculation accuracy. (2)
A penalty function is introduced. The implementation of
this method is simple, but it is easy to cause a numerical
difference. Therefore, the periodic boundary constraints
can be achieved by combining these two methods. The
special boundary constraint needs to divide the whole             z
model into two independent models: a global model and
a sub-model. The global model includes a geometric                        x

constraint, displacement constraint, and boundary con-
                                                                                  y
straint. The sub-model is a part of the whole model, so
we cannot analyze the global features of the model, such
as cracks. In the global model, the displacement
corresponding to the sub-model is the boundary condi-                                                load
tion of the sub-model. Therefore, the grid of the global
model is relatively coarse. If the global model corre-        Figure 12: Global model.
sponds to the sub-model, the calculation results will be
more accurate [21].
                                                              bending speed is expanded n times, the calculation time will
     The basic implementation steps of special boundary                               1
                                                              be shortened to n of the original time. In order to ensure that
constraints in the finite element analysis include the
following:                                                    the energy distribution in the simulation process is
(1) global model analysis: the global model is divided        consistent with the actual situation, the simulation speed
     with coarse meshes without considering the local         should be stable. Therefore, the bending speed is set as
     structure details, and then the global structure is      3,000 mm/s, the optimal bending radius is 2 mm, and the
     analyzed to calculate the displacement at a specific      time to complete the simulation is 2.444 s. Then, the
     location (near the boundary of the sub-model).           amplitude curve of finite element analysis is obtained. The
(2) establishment of the sub-model: according to the          specific process is shown in Figure 14.
     analysis target and the actual structure, the sub-
     model of a local fine mesh is built.
(3) boundary condition interpolation value: the displa-                               Sub boundary conditions / loads
     cement boundary of the global model obtained in
     the first step is taken as the boundary condition.
     Then, it is automatically loaded to the corresponding
     position in the sub-model by the linear interpolation
     method (the displacement interpolation result de-
     termines the computing accuracy of the sub-model).
(4) result analysis of the sub-model: the original
     boundary and load in the region of sub-models are
     unchanged, and then the finite element analysis is
     performed on sub-models. The global model is shown       z
     in Figure 12, and the sub-model is shown in Figure 13.
                                                                      x

    In the setting of boundary conditions, the efficiency of                    y
calculation can be improved by increasing the bending
speed under the condition of a constant time step. If the     Figure 13: Sub-model.
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                                                                       Table 8: Parameters of each material layer in the finite element
                                                                       model
                                           Open. DXF format file

                                                                       Material layer            Young’s                         Poisson’s ratio
                                                                                                 modulus (Mpa)

                                                                       PI substrate              9,200                           0.35
                                                                       Organic photoresist       3,400                           0.35
                                           Read. DXF format file       Metal alignment           80,000                          0.35
                                                                       Inorganic substrate       1,10,000                        0.17

                                                                           According to the amplitude curve of finite element
                                                                       analysis, HyperMesh software is used to build the finite
                                           Calculate interpolation
   Enter sample interval                                               element model of three-dimensional bending simulation
                                                point value
                                                                       of the OLED bending area. The specific model is shown
                                                                       in Figure 15.

    Enter bending speed
                                          Calculating displacement     3 Research on mechanical properties
                                                    array

                                                                       3.1 Experimental process

                                                                       The mechanical properties in the bending process of the
                                         Get the amplitude curve of    OLED bending area were researched using the 3D
   Input channel spacing
                                          finite element analysis

                                                                                        compress                           stretching
Figure 14: Specific process of obtaining the amplitude curve of finite
element analysis.
                                                                       Protective cover plate 60 µm

                                                                              OCA1 25 µm

                                                                           Touch layer 50 µm

                                                                              OCA2 25 µm

                                                                             Polarizer 47 µm

                                                                              OCA3 20 µm
                                                                           Display layer 10 µm
                                                                             Substrate 15 µm
                                                                              OCA4 25 µm

                                                                            Backplane-75 µm

                                                                           -0.02 -0.015 -0.01 -0.005         0    0.005      0.01   0.015   0.02
                                                                                                   Nominal strain / 100%

                                                                                                          Periodic boundary condition algorithm
                                                                                                          Special boundary constraints

                                                                                                          Bending mechanical response

Figure 15: Finite element model of 3D bending simulation of the        Figure 16: Experimental results of mechanical properties of
OLED bending area.                                                     traditional models.
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               compress                            stretching

Protective cover plate 60 µm

       OCA1 25 µm

    Touch layer 50 µm

       OCA2 25 µm

      Polarizer 47 µm

       OCA3 20 µm
   Display layer 10 µm
      Substrate 15 µm
       OCA4 25 µm

      Backplane-75 µm

   -0.02 -0.015    -0.01   -0.005    0    0.005      0.01       0.015   0.02
                           Nominal strain / 100%

                                     Periodic boundary condition algorithm

                                     Special boundary constraints

                                     Bending mechanical response

Figure 17: Experimental results of mechanical properties of the proposed model.

bending simulation finite element model of the OLED                             mechanical properties of three traditional OLED bending
bending area [22–25]. First, the material parameters of                        simulation models are shown in Figure 16.
each layer in the finite element model were calculated.                             The experimental results of the mechanical properties of
The specific results are shown in Table 8.                                      the finite element model of three-dimensional bending
     In order to ensure the fairness and effectiveness of                       simulation of the OLED bending area are shown in Figure 17.
the experimental results, three traditional bending                                According to the verification results of mechanical
simulation models such as the model based on a periodic                        properties, the performance of strain distribution of the
boundary condition algorithm, the model based on                               finite element model of three-dimensional bending
special boundary constraints, and the model based on                           simulation of the OLED bending area is better than
bending mechanical response were used to compare the                           that of the traditional model, so that the effectiveness of
finite element model designed in this article. The                              the proposed model can be proved.
mechanical properties of the proposed model were
judged using the strain distribution [26,27]. The more
tortuous the strain distribution curve is, the stronger the
strain distribution performance is.                                            4 Conclusions
                                                                               Due to the poor mechanical properties obtained in the
                                                                               traditional simulation models of the OLED bending area,
3.2 Research results                                                           a finite element model for three-dimensional bending
                                                                               simulation of the OLED bending area is proposed. This
In this study, the mechanical properties of the bending                        model effectively improves the mechanical properties, so
region were analyzed by observing the motion states at                         it has great significance for the research on the bending
different positions. The experimental results of the                            properties of OLED screens.
3D bending simulation and mechanical properties of OLED bending area                   407

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