Smart Materials and Structures

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Springer Science & Business Media, 31 мая 1992 г. - Всего страниц: 312
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the embryonic field of smart materials and structures, and also presents a state-of-the-art review of the sub-disciplines of the field. It informs readers of the technical challenges to the commercialisation of products incorporating these material technologies.
 

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Historical prologue
1
11 An historical perspective
4
12 Plastics
8
13 Advanced composite materials
10
14 Designformanufacture algorithm for fiberous composite materials
22
15 Ceramics
28
16 Pure glass
31
17 Gallium arsenide
32
Piezoelectric materials
175
52 Piezoelectricity
177
53 Industrial piezoelectric materials
179
54 Smart materials featuring piezoelectric elements
184
Shapememory materials
192
62 Applications of shapememoryalloys
199
structures and machine systems
200
64 Discrete applications
205

18 Superconductors
33
19 Closure
34
Intelligent materials
36
21 Primitive functions of intelligent materials
46
22 Intelligence inherent in materials
47
23 Materials intelligently harmonizing with humanity
52
24 Intelligent biological materials
58
Smart materials and structural systems
70
31 Actuator materials
74
32 Sensing technologies
76
33 Microsensors
78
34 Intelligent systems
79
35 Hybrid smart materials
80
36 Passive sensory smart structures
87
37 Reactive actuatorbased smart structures
96
38 Active sensing and reactive smart structures
105
39 Smart skins
119
310 Aeroelastic tailoring of airfoils
129
311 Synthesis of future smart systems
135
Electrorheological fluids
137
42 The electrorheological phenomenon
147
43 Chargemigration mechanisms for the dispersed phase
148
44 Electrorheological fluid actuators
150
45 A collage of experimental investigations
155
65 Impediments to applications of shapememoryalloys
211
66 Shapememory plastics
212
Fiberoptic sensors
216
an overview
220
72 Advantages of fiberoptics
223
73 Light propagation in an optical fiber
226
74 Embedding optical fibers in fiberous polymeric thermosets
229
75 Fiberoptic strain sensors
234
The epilogue research issues
246
81 Material intelligence and associated phenomena
249
82 Intelligence at the most primitive level in materials
254
83 Strategies for intelligent materials research
258
84 Assembly and integration functions
261
Bibliography
265
Shapememory alloys
274
Piezoelectric actuators
277
Piezoelectric sensors
282
Fiberoptic sensors
284
Smart sensors and actuators
288
Magnetorheological suspensions
290
Neural networks
291
Index
301
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