Smart Materials and Structures - Rilegato

Thompson, B. D.; Gandhi, M. V.

 
9780412370106: Smart Materials and Structures

Sinossi

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the embryonic field of smart materials and structures. The text also presents a review of the sub-discplines of the field, and focuses on electro-rheological fluids, peizoelectric materials, shape-memory materials, and fibre-optics in particular. Readers are appraised of the technical challenges to the commercialization of products incorporating these material technologies, and the potential applicaitons of these technologies in virtually every segment of the international market place. Furthermore, the multi-disciplinary nature of the field of smart materials is expounded and the impact of these materials on many scientific and technologically diverse fields such as electronics, artificial intelligence, information technology, materials synthesis, physics, chemistry, molecular biology, computer science, the life sciences, control theory, the aerospece industry, materials processing the defence sciences, transportation and bio-technology, is enunciated. The final section deals with blue-sky research issues currently confronting researchers in the field of smart materials.

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Recensione

This most timely text is devoted to the newly emerging field of smart materials...The authors have provided an excellent bibliography to serve the reader as a valuable start. This well written text offers the technologist a new and stimulating approach to materials. - Sample Journal - USA

Contenuti

Preface. Historical prologue. Intelligent materials. Smart materials and structural systems. Electro-rheological fluids. Piezoelectric materials. Shape-memory materials. Fiber-optic sensors. The epilogue: research issues. Bibliography. Index.

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ISBN 10:  0442308760 ISBN 13:  9780442308766
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