Smart structures, materials and nano technology in engineering

Sensors : Engineering Structures and Materials from Micro to Nano

Sensors science and engineering is relevant to virtually all aspects of life including safety, security, surveillance, monitoring, and awareness in general. Sensors are central to industrial applications being used for process control, monitoring, and safety. Sensors are also central to medicine being used for diagnostics, monitoring, critical care, and public health. This article is a brief in...

Smart materials and structures.

A smart structure is a system containing multifunctional parts that can perform sensing, control, and actuation; it is a primitive analogue of a biological body. Smart materials are used to construct these smart structures, which can perform both sensing and actuation functions. The ‘‘I.Q.’’ of smart materials is measured in terms of their ‘‘responsiveness’’ to environmental stimuli and their ‘...

Nano-Encapsulated Smart Tunable Phase Change Materials

Mathematical modelings of smart materials and structures

We aim to present mathematical models of smart materials and smart structures. Smart materials are materials which present significant multiphysical couplings. They are integrated in smart structures which take technological advantages of some multiphysical effects. We establish a classification of piezoelectric crystalline materials and propose simplified but accurate models of thin plates or ...

Smart Materials, Precision Sensors/Actuators,Smart Structures, and Structronic Systems

Many electroactive functional materials have been used in smalland microscale transducers and precision mechatronic control systems for years. It was not until the mid-1980s that scientists started integrating electroactive materials with large-scale structures as in situ sensors and/or actuators, thus introducing the concept of smart materials, smart structures, and structronic systems. This p...