Smart materials have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their unique properties and promising applications across various industries. Properties are altered in a controlled fashion by external or internal stimuli such as temperature, stress, pressure, pH, electric or magnetic fields and moistures. Smart materials are also called intelligent materials because of their intellectual behavior due to change in environmental conditions. The key features of intellectual behavior include the capabilities to retain original state once stimulus has been removed. Smart properties such as self-sensing, self-healing, memory capabilities, self-adaptivity, self-diagnostics, self-actuating allow new applications in mechanical, electronics, medical, healthcare, aerospace, aviation, automobile and environmental engineering. The book captures the recent innovative breakthroughs in smart materials, experimental and computational analysis, hybrid processing techniques, and the latest developments in the applications of smart materials. It covers fundamentals, artificial intelligence, digital twin, and internet of things for the design and development of novel features and describes processing, testing, optimization, modeling, simulation, and characterization techniques. This book will help readers understand shape-memory alloys, shape-memory polymers, piezoelectric materials, electrochromic materials, thermoelectric materials, and magneto-restrictive materials.

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Product details

ISBN
9783111512839
Published
2025-12-01
Publisher
De Gruyter
Weight
542 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
247

Biographical note

Ajay Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Core Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology & Architecture, Manipal University Jaipur, India, Parveen Kumar, Skill Department of Automotive Studies, Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, India, Tamer Sebaey, PSU, Saudi Arabia, Velaphi Msomi, UNISA, South Africa.