Engineering Analysis of Smart Material Systems

Engineering Analysis of Smart Material Systems, 9780471684770 (0471684775), John Wiley & Sons, 2007

The field of smart materials has grown considerably in the past ten to fifteen years as topics have transitioned from basic research to commercial applications. In the beginning stages of my career it was still rather exotic for a device or structure to be called “smart.” It was the early 1990s, and while the integration of electronics into everyday devices was underway, the revolutions that would become wireless communication and global networking were only beginning. Today it is somewhat trite to call a device “smart” since almost all engineering systems have some measure of networked “intelligence” to them through the integration of sensors, electronics, and actuators. Hopefully this book will provide a basis of understanding for many of the materials and material systems that underlie the analysis and design of “smart” devices.

This book grew out of a series of courses taught by myself to graduate and undergraduate students at Virginia Tech in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The primary purpose of this book is to provide educators a text that can be used to teach the topic of smart materials and smart material systems. For this reason the book is organized into two introductory chapters, four chapters that teach the basic properties of several types of smart materials, and a final four chapters that apply the material concepts to engineering application areas. Each chapter contains worked examples and solved homework problems that reinforce the mathematical concepts introduced in the text.A secondary purpose of the book is to provide practicing engineers a text that highlights the basic concepts in several types of applications areas for smart materials, areas such as vibration damping and control, motion control, and the power considerations associated with smart material systems.

The book provides a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the physical processes of active materials and the design and control of engineering systems. It will also be a reference text for practicing engineers who might understand the basic principles of active materials but have an interest in learning more about specific applications. The text includes a number of worked examples, design problems, and homework problems (with a solutions manual) that will be useful for both instructors and practicing engineers.

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