Smart Materials and Structures

Proceedings of the 4th European and 2nd MIMR Conference, Harrogate, UK, 6-8 July 1998

G.R Tomlinson, W.A Bullough, G.R Tomlinson, W.A Bullough

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780750305471
• eBook ISBN: 9781482268560
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Condensed Matter

Significant changes have occurred in materials science, including increasing demands on life extensions, and the reliability and exploitability of components, materials, and structures. These changes provide smart technologies with excellent application opportunities in aerospace, civil and electrical engineering, transportation, manufacturing, com

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Committee Members
• Contents
• Smart by name, smart by nature
• Design, optimization and realization of smart structures
• Recent advances in adaptive aerostructures: designing for flight control
• An adaptive composite structure to control the sonic shock of transport aircraft wings
• Structure mechanical aspects for the realization of adaptive wing structures
• Actuators for active vibration control-tunable resonant devices
• Adaptive identification of an acoustic system for active noise control
• A coupled robust control optimization approach for active-passive hybrid adaptive structures
• Active control of gear vibration using specially configured sensors and actuators
• Position and force control of a two-link flexible manipulator with piezoelectric actuators
• Extended performance of hybrid actuators
• Recent developments in piezoelectric ferroelectric materials and composites
• Optimum vibration control of CFRP sandwich beam using electro-rheological fluids and piezoceramic actuators
• Active vibration control of shape-memory alloy hybrid composites
• Models for the high frequency response of active piezoelectric composite beams
• Robust shape control of flexible structures using strain-measurement-gauges and piezoelectric stack actuators
• Comparison of extension and shear actuation mechanisms for smart structure beams
• Design of a distributed acoustic actuator for active noise control
• Electromagnetic miniactuators and microactuators using thin magnetic layers
• Optimal sensor-controller-actuator configuration for active vibration and shape control—experimental and numerical results for a ribbed plate
• Adaptive vibration damping of high speed railway pantographs
• Active structural control for a smart guitar
• Infrastructure development for incorporating fibre-optic sensors in composite materials
• Piezoelectric double amplifier systems for air acoustic noise control
• Control of plate vibrations using smart technology
• The application of a smart landing gear oleo incorporating electrorheological fluid
• A semi-active suspension using ER fluids for a commercial vehicle seat
• Electro-rheological fluid controllers
• Complex properties and composition of ER fluids
• Performance of electrically sensitive fluid
• Urethane modified polyethers as homogeneous electrorheological materials
• Particulate/liquid electrically structured functional fluids—a computer fluid mechanics technique for engineering design
• Magnetorheological throttle valve in passive damping systems
• Idealized hysteresis modeling of electrorheological and magnetorheological dampers
• Magnetorheological suspension-based high precision finishing technology
• Homogeneous magnetorheological materials
• Reynolds number effects in the flow of an electrorheological fluid between fixed surfaces of revolution
• Damping of piezo actuators with magnetorheological fluids
• Comparative assessment of models for describing the constitutive behaviour of shape memory alloys
• Characteristics of SMA particle dispersed steel matrix composite
• Testing a SMA energy dissipation device
• Purified and rapidly solidified high performance shape memory alloys produced by the smart electro-magnetically controlled nozzleless melt-spinning method
• Application of shape memory alloy with all-round effect to flow control values
• Thermomechanical properties of TiNi shape memory alloy and their applications
• Actuation properties of adaptable hybrid composites with embedded wires of shape memory alloys
• A finite element formulation for SMA actuators
• The alleviation of post-buckled displacements and non-linear stresses within laminated plates using SMA actuators
• The use of 0-3 piezocomposite embedded Lamb wave sensors for damage detection in advanced fibre composites
• Damage detection in a radome sandwich material with embedded fiber optic sensors
• In situ monitoring of flexural fatigue damage in CFRP laminates by electrical resistance measurements
• The rapid monitoring of structures using interdigital Lamb wave transducers
• Health monitoring of composite plastic waterworks lock gates using in-fibre Bragg grating sensors
• Intensity based optical fiber monitoring for infrastructures
• Applications of broadband laser-based ultrasound to materials testing
• Health monitoring of internal delamination cracks for graphite/epoxy composites by electric potential method
• Monitoring ON-line Integrated Technologies for Operational Reliability (MONITOR)
• Bridge deck measurements using embedded fiber optic sensors
• Mechanical and sensing performance of embedded in-fibre Bragg grating devices during impact testing of carbon fibre reinforced polymer composite
• Health monitoring of ship structures with fiber-optic sensors
• An experimental study of fail-safe sensor distributions for impact detection in composite materials
• Actuator placement in smart structures by discrete-continuous optimization
• Drive/control electronic systems for ultraprecision and ultrastable next generation space optics
• Elastically coupled magneto-electric elements with highly magnetostrictive amorphous films and PZT substrates
• The piezoelectric implant method: implementation and practical application
• Macroscopic description of the non-linear electro-mechanical coupling in ferroelectrics
• Mathematical modelling of some biological bearings
• Magnetic field sensitive polymeric actuators
• Purposeful remote influence on materials and biological objects aimed at normalization of functional processes
• Blubber and compliant coatings for drag reduction in fluids IV: rotating disc drag measurements on coatings that mimic dolphin blubber
• A porous silicon-based microsystem for humidity monitoring
• On static and dynamic design criteria of sandwich plate structures with a negative Poisson’s ratio core
• Superelasticity of excellent car coating film
• Smart microwave materials and structures
• Some functional macromolecules as exciton converters. I. The problem of initial macromolecular cell selection
• Focused ion beams and silicon-on-insulator—a novel approach to MEMS
• Characterization of particle motion for polishing and texturing under AC field by using particle dispersion type ER fluid
• Smart nano-machining and measurement system with semiconductive diamond probe
• Spectral finite element modeling of the longitudinal wave propagation in rods treated with active constrained layer damping
• On modelling and analysis of piezoelastic adaptive structures by the finite element method
• Monitoring of optical transmission loss through optical fiber embedded in SiC fiber reinforced aluminium composite during tensile test
• Composite shell piezoelectronics theory: application to spherical caps
• Dynamic mechanical measurements on 21 polymer systems reviewed for vibration damping applications; complex shear compliance, modulus, and loss tangent data transferred to computer disk for use in analysis and damping material design
• Active noise control of cabin interiors when excited by external mechanical and/or acoustic loads
• Improved models for smart structures with viscoelastic elements
• Hybrid damping treatments in thermal environments
• Hysteresis modeling in smart material systems
• Microsensors, MEMS and their applications in smart structures and devices
• The construction and characteristics of a piezoelectric motor using a harmonic drive
• Controlled ultrasonic motor for servo-drive applications
• A novel accelerometer for sensing pen tip motion
• Domain switching induced stresses at the tip of a crack in piezoceramics
• Computational evaluation of poling induced stress fields in a piezoelectric ceramic
• Pulsed laser deposition of PZT for functional integration in sensors and actuators
• Monitoring MONITOR
• The ‘SMART MAST’ demonstrator
• Adaptive aerostructures, demonstration of flightworthy hardware
• Active control using shape memory materials
• Electrostructured fluids and their applications
• Smart layer: built-in diagnostics for composite structures
• Channelled spectrum interrogated differential strain sensor demonstrator
• Smart wing concept using shape memory alloys
• Weight table demonstrators using THUNDER™ actuators: from the new family of rugged, robust, reliable multi-function devices
• Background music provided by ... piezoelectric speakers
• A comparison of passive damping treatments
• Piezoelectric impedance-based qualitative health monitoring
• Portable equipment for in situ health monitoring of material
• Adaptive composites with embedded shape memory alloy wires
• Wireless passive MEMS-IDT strain microsensor and health monitoring system
• Influence of aging on taste of hot coffee treated by tourmaline
• Evaluation of materials intelligence
• Physical and mechanical properties of Ni2+xMn1-xGa
• Author Index