Transcription of SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS - IIT Delhi
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SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS 1 SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS SMART SYSTEMS/ STRUCTURES Definition of SMART Systems/ STRUCTURES The definition of SMART STRUCTURES was a topic of controversy from the late 1970 s to the late 1980 s. In order to arrive at a consensus for major terminology, a special workshop was organised by the US Army Research Office in 1988, in which sensors , actuators , control mechanism and timely response were recognised as the four qualifying features of any SMART system or structure (Rogers, 1988).
smart materials is introduced in the following section. Smart Materials ... Optical fibres, piezo-electric polymers and ceramics, electro-rheological (ER) fluids, magneto-strictive materials and shape memory alloys (SMAs) are some of the smart materials. Fig. 2 shows the associated ‘stimulus’ and ‘response’ of
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