Dynamics of Smart Structures
ISBN: 9780470697054 | 0470697059
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 6/14/2010
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Dynamics of Smart Structures is a practical, concise and integrated text which provides an introduction to the fundamental principles. The book has been developed to complement the author's new interdisciplinary programme of study at QMUL that includes courses on emerging and new technologies such as biomimetic robotics, smart composite structures, MEMS and their applications and prosthetic control systems. It includes chapters on smart materials and structures, acoustic waves and transmission lines, dynamics of continuous structures, dynamics ... MORE
| From Smart Materials to Smart Structures | |
| Modern Materials A Survey | |
| Ceramics | |
| Composites | |
| Introduction to Features of Smart materials | |
| Survey of Smart Polymeric materials | |
| Shape Memory Materials | |
| Complex fluids and soft materials | |
| Active Fiber Composites | |
| Optical fibres | |
| Smart Struct... MORE | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Transducers for Smart structures | |
| Transducers for structural control | |
| Actuation of flexible structures | |
| Sensors for flexible and smart structures | |
| Fibre Optic Sensors | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Fundamentals of Structural Control | |
| Introduction | |
| Analysis of control systems in the time domain | |
| Properties of Linear systems | |
| Shaping the Dynamic Response using Feedback Control | |
| Modelling of the Transverse Vibration of thin Beams | |
| Externally Excited motion of Beams | |
| Closed Loop Control of Flexural Vibration | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Dynamics of Continuous Structures | |
| Fundamentals of Acoustic Waves | |
| Propagation of Acoustic Waves in the Atmosphere | |
| Circuit Modeling Transmission Lines and Wave Digital Filters | |
| Mechanics of Pure Elastic Media | |
| Waves in Elastic Media | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Dynamics of Plates and Plate like Structures | |
| Flexural Vibrations of Plates | |
| Vibrations of membranes | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Dynamics of Piezoelectric Media | |
| Introduction | |
| Piezoelectric Crystalline Media | |
| Wave Propagation in Piezoelectric Crystals | |
| Vibration of piezo-electric plates | |
| Transmission Line Model | |
| Discrete element model of thin piezoelectric transducers | |
| The Generation of Acoustic Waves | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Mechanics of Electro-Actuated Composite Structures | |
| Mechanics of Composite Laminated Media | |
| Failure of Fibre-composites | |
| Flexural Vibrations in Laminated Composite Plates | |
| Dynamic modelling of Flexible Structures | |
| Active Composite Laminated Structures | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
| Dynamics of Thermo-Elastic Media Shape Memory Alloys | |
| Fundamentals of Thermoelasticity | |
| The Shape Memory effect The Phase-transformation kinetics | |
| Nonlinear Constitutive Relations | |
| Thermal Control of Shape Memory Alloys | |
| The Analysis and Modeling of Hysteresis | |
| Constitutive Relations for non-linear and hysteretic media | |
| SMA Actuators Architecture and Model structure | |
| Bibliography | |
| Controller Design for Flexible Structures | |
| Introduction to Controller Design | |
| Controller Synthesis for Structural Control | |
| Optimal Control Synthesis and Linear Matrix Inequalities | |
| Optimal Design of Structronic Systems | |
| Design of an Active Catheter | |
| Modelling and Control of Machine Tool Chatter | |
| Exercises | |
| Bibliography | |
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Dr Ranjan Vepa is lecturer in avionics in the Department of Engineering at QMUL. Since joining in 1984 he has taught undergraduate avionics related courses, and conducted research into the aspects of the design, analysis, simulation, and implementation of avionics and avionics-related systems including non-linear aerospace vehicle kinematics, dynamics, vibration, control and filtering. Dr Ranjan Vepa is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In addition to journal and conference papers, he has contributed to the textbook Application of Artificial Intelligence in Process Control and is currently completing a research monograph on Biomimetic Robotics: Mechanisms and Control, due to be published in June 2008 by Cambridge University Press.
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