Smart Structures and Materials: Selected Papers from the 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials

✍ Scribed by Aurelio L. Araujo, Carlos A. Mota Soares (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 43
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work was compiled with expanded and reviewed contributions from the 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, that was held from 3 to 6 June 2015 at Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. The Conference provided a comprehensive forum for discussing the current state of the art in the field as well as generating inspiration for future ideas specifically on a multidisciplinary level.
The scope of the Conference included topics related to the following areas:
Fundamentals of smart materials and structures; Modeling/formulation and characterization of smart actuators, sensors and smart material systems; Trends and developments in diverse areas such as material science including composite materials, intelligent hydrogels, interfacial phenomena, phase boundaries and boundary layers of phase boundaries, control, micro- and nano-systems, electronics, etc. to be considered for smart systems; Comparative evaluation of different smart actuators and sensors; Analysis of structural concepts and designs in terms of their adaptability to smart technologies; Design and development of smart structures and systems; Biomimetic phenomena and their inspiration in engineering; Fabrication and testing of smart structures and systems; Applications of smart materials, structures and related technology; Smart robots; Morphing wings and smart aircrafts; Artificial muscles and biomedical applications; Smart structures in mechatronics; and Energy harvesting.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Role of the Structural Nonlinearity in Enhancing the Performance of a Vibration Energy Harvester Based on the Electrets Materials....Pages 1-21
Numerical Analysis of Fracture of Pre-stressed Ferroelectric Actuator Taking into Account Cohesive Zone for Damage Accumulation....Pages 23-39
Modelling the Constitutive Behaviour of Martensite and Austenite in Shape Memory Alloys Using Closed-Form Analytical Continuous Equations....Pages 41-66
Experimental Investigations of Actuators Based on Carbon Nanotube Architectures....Pages 67-95
Efficient Experimental Validation of Stochastic Sensitivity Analyses of Smart Systems....Pages 97-113
Design of Control Concepts for a Smart Beam Structure with Sensitivity Analysis of the System....Pages 115-132
Adaptive Inductor for Vibration Damping in Presence of Uncertainty....Pages 133-151
Active Control of the Hinge of a Flapping Wing with Electrostatic Sticking to Modify the Passive Pitching Motion....Pages 153-174
Control System Design for a Morphing Wing Trailing Edge....Pages 175-193
Towards the Industrial Application of Morphing Aircraft Wings—Development of the Actuation Kinematics of a Droop Nose....Pages 195-207
Artificial Muscles Design Methodology Applied to Robotic Fingers....Pages 209-225
Methods for Assessment of Composite Aerospace Structures....Pages 227-244
Design Optimization and Reliability Analysis of Variable Stiffness Composite Structures....Pages 245-265
Robust Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization-Based Inverse Identification of Three-Dimensional Elastic Behaviour of Multilayer Unidirectional Fibre Composites....Pages 267-293

✦ Subjects

Structural Mechanics;Structural Materials;Control, Robotics, Mechatronics