Intelligent Materials and Structures

✍ Scribed by Haim Abramovich

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligent Materials and Structures provides exceptional insights into designing intelligent materials and structures for special applications in engineering. The author introduces the fundamental materials science involved in research endeavors and simultaneously reviews the current state-of-the-art of intelligent materials and structures.
Separate chapters are devoted to the thorough examination of theory and application of laminated composite materials, Piezoelectricity, Shape Memory Alloys, Electro- and Magnetorheological fluids as well as Magneto- and Electrostrictive materials. Each chapter contains numerous equations and figures describing theories, models and behavior of the intelligent material discussed.
Special attention is paid to applications of intelligent materials to various structures in the aerospace and medical sector, piezoelectric motors as well as piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvesting.

Contents:
Introduction to Intelligent Materials and Structures
Laminated Composite Materials
Piezoelectricity
Shape Memory Alloys
Electrorheological and Magnetorheological Fluids
Magnetostrictive and Electrostrictive Materials
Applications of Intelligent Materials in Structures
Energy Harvesting using Intelligent Materials
Index

• Highly application-oriented approach to the field of intelligent materials and structures.
• Each chapter contains numerous figures and equations illustrating and explaining the topic.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1 Introduction to Intelligent Materials and Structures
1.1 Types of Intelligent Materials
1.2 Extended Review on Piezoelectric Materials, SMA, ER and MR Fluids and MS and ES Materials
1.2.1 Extended Review on Piezoelectricity
1.2.2 Extended Review on Shape Memory Alloys
1.2.3 Extended Review on Electrorheological and Magnetorheological Fluids
1.2.4 Extended Review on Magnetostrictive and Electrostrictive Materials
1.3 Typical Properties of Intelligent Materials
1.4 Recent Applications of Intelligent Materials and Systems
2 Laminated Composite Materials
2.1 Classical Lamination Theory
2.2 First-Order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) Model
3 Piezoelectricity
3.1 Constitutive Equations
3.2 Pin Force Beam Model
3.3 Uniform-Strain Beam Model
3.4 Bernoulli–Euler Beam Model
3.5 First-Order Shear Deformation (Timoshenko Type) Beam Model
3.6 Composite Plates with Piezoelectric Patches
3.7 Appendix I
3.7.1 Appendix A
3.7.2 Appendix B: Constants Presented in Table 3.4
3.7.3 Appendix C: Constants Presented in Table 3.5
3.7.4 Appendix D
4 Shape Memory Alloys
4.1 Basic Behavior of SMA
4.2 Constitutive Equations
4.3 SMA Models in Literature
5 Electrorheological and Magnetorheological Fluids
5.1 Fundamental Behavior of ER and MR Fluids
5.2 Modeling ER and MR Fluids
5.3 Damping of ER and MR Fluids
5.4 Appendix II
5.4.1 Appendix A
5.4.2 Appendix B
5.4.3 Appendix C
6 Magnetostrictive and Electrostrictive Materials
6.1 Behavior of Magnetostrictive Materials
6.2 Constitutive Equations of Magnetostrictive Materials
6.3 Behavior of ElectrostrictiveMaterials
6.4 Constitutive Equations of Electrostrictive Materials
6.5 Appendix III
6.5.1 Appendix A
6.5.2 Appendix B
7 Applications of Intelligent Materials in Structures
7.1 Aerospace Sector
7.2 Medical Sector
7.3 Piezoelectric Motors
8 Energy Harvesting using Intelligent Materials
8.1 Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
8.2 Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting
Index