Advances in Smart Technologies in Structural Engineering

✍ Scribed by Fabio Casciati, Roberto Rossi (auth.), Prof. Dr. Jan Holnicki-Szulc, Prof. Dr. Carlos Mota Soares (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book collects invited lectures presented at the AMAS & ECCOMAS Workshop/Thematic Conference SMART’03 on Smart Materials and Structures. The conference was held in Jadwisin, Poland near Warsaw, 2-5 September 2003. It was organized by the Advanced Materials and Structures (AMAS) Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IFTR) in Warsaw and ECCOMAS – the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and SMART-TECH Centre at IFTR. The goal of the workshop was to bring together and consolidate the community of Smart Materials and Structures in Europe. The workshop program was grouped into the topics Structural Control, Vibration Control and Dynamics, Damage Identification, and Smart Materials.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Fuzzy Chip Controllers and Wireless Links in Smart Structures....Pages 1-24
Semi-Active Friction Damping of Flexible Lightweight Structures....Pages 25-43
Design of Adaptive Structures under Random Impact Conditions....Pages 45-67
Damage Detection of Structures Using Spectral Element Method....Pages 69-88
Spatial Filtering with Discrete Array Sensors and Distributed PVDF Films....Pages 89-116
Structural Health Monitoring Using Guided Ultrasonic Waves....Pages 117-162
Controllability and Asymptotic Problems in Distributed Systems....Pages 163-190
Mechatronics in Vibration Monitoring and Control....Pages 191-211

✦ Subjects

Structural Mechanics; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Computational Intelligence