Smart Materials

ISBN-13: 9781420043723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 576 str.

Mel Schwartz; Mel Schwartz

Opis

Smart Materials explores all areas of the enabling technologies and system integration that comprise the interdisciplinary field of smart materials and structures. It features a wide range of industrial applications at various stages of commercialization, including piezoelectric and electrostrictive ceramics, piezoelectric polymers, and fiber-optic sensor systems. This book provides real world examples of current and developing applications in medicine, biotechnology, utilities, and aviation. These include chemical indicating devices, drug delivery systems, adhesives and coatings, battery applications, aircraft control devices, power industry applications, and smart structures.

Spis treści

Films. Intelligent Synthesis of Smart Ceramic Materials. Functionally Graded Polymer Blend. Structural Application of Smart Materials. Composite Systems 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 Alloys and 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 Aquatic Animals. 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.

O autorze

Mel Schwartz