Smart Materials And Structures, Ed. 1
New Research
- Author
- Reece, Peter L. (EDT)
- Publisher
- Nova Science
- Publication Date
- Jun, 2007
- ISBN
- 1600211070 or 9781600211072
- HARDCOVER
- 292 Pages
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¥ 14,105 (tax included)
Description
"Smart" materials respond to environmental stimuli with particular changes in some variables. For that reason they are often also called responsive materials. Depending on changes in some external conditions, "smart" materials change either their properties (mechanical, electrical, appearance), their structure or composition, or their functions.
Mostly, "smart" materials are embedded in systems whose inherent properties can be favorably changed to meet performance needs. Smart materials and structures have widespread applications in ; 1. Materials science: composites, ceramics, processing science, interface science, sensor/actuator materials, chiral materials, conducting and chiral polymers, electrochromic materials, liquid crystals, molecular-level smart materials, biomaterials. 2. Sensing and actuation: electromagnetic, acoustic, chemical and mechanical sensing and actuation, single-measurand sensors, multiplexed multimeasurand distributed sensors and actuators, sensor/actuator signal processing, compatibility of sensors and actuators with conventional and advanced materials, smart sensors for materials and composites processing. 3. Optics and electromagnetics: optical fibre technology, active and adaptive optical systems and components, tunable high-dielectric phase shifters, tunable surface control. 4. Structures: smart skins for drag and turbulence control, other applications in aerospace/hydrospace structures, civil infrastructures, transportation vehicles, manufacturing equipment, repairability and maintainability. 5. Control: structural acoustic control, distributed control, analogue and digital feedback control, real-time implementation, adaptive structure stability, damage implications for structural control. 6. Information processing: neural networks, data processing, data visualization and reliability. This new book presents leading new research from around the globe in this field.
Contents
1. New Advances in Design and Preparation of Electrorheological Materials and Devices (Xiaopeng Zhao et al., Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
2. Electroelasticity Problems of Piezoelectric Materials and a Full Solution of a Dielectric Crack (Xian-Fang Li, Central South University, China)
3. Analysis of Hybrid Actuated Laminated Piezoelectric Sandwich Beams and Active Vibration Control Applications (S. Raja, National Aerospace Laboratories, India)
4. Vibration Control of CD-ROM and HDD Systems using Piezoelectric Shunt Circuits (Seung-Bok Choi, Inha University, Korea)
5. Progress in Structural Health Monitoring and Non-Destructive Evaluation using Piezo-Impedance Transducers (Suresh Bhalla, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and Chee-Kiong Soh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
6. Novel Direct Soft Parametric Identification Strategies for Structural Health Monitoring with Neural Networks (Bin Xu, Hunan University, P.R. China)
7. An Improved Paricle Swarm Optimization-Based Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network for Identifying and Controlling Ultrasonic Motors (Hong-Wei Ge et al., Jilin University, China)

