This title explores state-of-the-art work from the world's foremost scientists, engineers, educators, and practitioners in the field. Why use smart materials? Since most smart materials do not add mass, engineers can endow structureswith built-in responses to a myriad of contingencies. In their various forms,these materials can adapt to their environments by changing characteristics and can provide information about structural and environmental changes. This isa single source on numerous aspects of intelligent materials."Smart Materials" focuses on many types of novel materials, including ceramics, hybrid composites, shape memory alloys, chitosan-based gels, adhesives, oxides, polymers, flip-chip technology, magnetorheological fluids, electrorheological materials, nanotubes, and sensors. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of these materials by showing how they can be used in scores of areas, such as drug delivery systems, health monitoring, fiber optics, nanoscale engineering, vibration control, and molecular imprinting. Gain insight from leading experts who specialize in smart materials technology. With over fifty years of experience working and teaching in this field, the editor has compiled numerous insightful contributions from an extensive group of leading experts. In this volume, they share their expertise and explore the innovative progress that has occurred in smart material products, components, systems, and structures. INDICE: Films. Intelligent Synthesis of Smart Ceramic Materials. Functionally Graded Polymer Blend. Structural Application of Smart Materials. CompositeSystems Modeling--Adaptive Structures: Modeling and Applications and Hybrid Composites. Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuators. Aircraft Applications of Smart Structures. Smart Battery Materials. Piezoelectric and Electrostrictive Ceramics Transducers and Actuators. Chitosan-Based Gels and Hydrogels. Films, Coatings, Adhesives, Polymers, and CMR Materials. Cure and Health Monitoring. Drug Delivery Systems. Fiber Optic Systems: Optical Fiber Sensor Technology and Windows. Flip-Chip Underfill: Materials, Process, and Reliability. Dielectric Cure Monitoring of Polymers, Composites, and Coatings: Synthesis, Cure, Fabrication, and Aging. Magnetorheological Fluids. Intelligent Processing of Materials. Magnets, Magnetic, and Magnetostrictive Materials. Shape Memory Alloysand Effects: Types, Functions, Modeling, and Applications. Current Developments in Electrorheological Materials. Carbon Microtubes and Conical Carbon Nanotubes. "Smart" Corrosion Protective Coatings. Smart Polymers for Biotechnology and Elastomers. Vibration Control for Smart Structures. Active Truss Structures. Application of Smart Materials and Smart Structures to the Study of AquaticAnimals. Molecular Imprinting Technology. Biomedical Sensing. Intelligent Chemical Indicators. Piezoelectric Polymer PVDF Microactuators. Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing and Materials Characterization. Lipid Membranes on Highly Ordered Porous Alumina Substrates. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4200-4372-3
- Editorial: CRC Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 554
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés