Print Proceedings Of The Asme 2008 Smart Materials Adaptive Structures And Intelligent Systems October 28 30 2008 Ellicott City Maryland

This is a collection of full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers. It covers topics including active materials, mechanics and behaviour, bio-inspired smart materials and structures, multifunctional materials and much more.

A collection of 104 peer-reviewed technical papers. It includes topics such as: Active Materials, Mechanics and Behavior; Bio-inspired Smart Materials and Structures; Enabling Technologies and Integrated System Design; Multifunctional Materials; Nonlinear Dynamics and Passive/Adaptive Controls; and, Structural Health Monitoring/NDE.

A collection of 84 peer-reviewed technical papers. It includes topics such as: Active Materials, Mechanics and Behavior; Bio-inspired Smart Materials and Structures; Enabling Technologies and Integrated System Design; Multifunctional Materials; Nonlinear Dynamics and Passive/Adaptive Controls; and, Structural Health Monitoring/NDE.

A collection of 81 full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers that covers such topics as: Bio-inspired Smart Materials and Structures; Enabling Technologies and Integrated System Design; Multifunctional Materials; and, Structural Health Monitoring/NDE.

This new edition of our 2016 book provides insight into designing intelligent materials and structures for special application in engineering. Literature is updated throughout and a new chapter on optics fibers has been added. The book discusses simulation and experimental determination of physical material properties, such as piezoelectric effects, shape memory, electro-rheology, and distributed control for vibrations minimization.

Fuzzy control theory is an emerging area of research. At the core of many engineering problems is the problem of control of different systems. These systems range all the way from classical inverted pendulum to auto-focusing system of a digital camera. Fuzzy control systems have demonstrated their enhanced performance in all these areas. Progress in this domain is very fast and there was critical need of a book that captures all the recent advances both in theory and in applications. Serving this purpose, this book is conceived. This book will provide you a very clear picture of current status of fuzzy control research. This book is intended for researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students specializing in fuzzy systems, control engineering, and robotics.

Autonomous sensors transmit data and power their electronics without using cables. They can be found in e.g. wireless sensor networks (WSNs) or remote acquisition systems. Although primary batteries provide a simple design for powering autonomous sensors, they present several limitations such as limited capacity and power density, and difficulty in predicting their condition and state of charge. An alternative is to extract energy from the ambient (energy harvesting). However, the reduced dimensions of most autonomous sensors lead to a low level of available power from the energy transducer. Thus, efficient methods and circuits to manage and gather the energy are a must. An integral approach for powering autonomous sensors by considering both primary batteries and energy harvesters is presented. Two rather different forms of energy harvesting are also dealt with: optical (or solar) and radiofrequency (RF). Optical energy provides high energy density, especially outdoors, whereas RF remote powering is possibly the most feasible option for autonomous sensors embedded into the soil or within structures. Throughout different chapters, devices such as primary and secondary batteries, supercapacitors, and energy transducers are extensively reviewed. Then, circuits and methods found in the literature used to efficiently extract and gather the energy are presented. Finally, new proposals based on the authors’ own research are analyzed and tested. Every chapter is written to be rather independent, with each incorporating the relevant literature references. Powering Autonomous Sensors is intended for a wide audience working on or interested in the powering of autonomous sensors. Researchers and engineers can find a broad introduction to basic topics in this interesting and emerging area as well as further insights on the topics of solar and RF harvesting and of circuits and methods to maximize the power extracted from energy transducers.