IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Reliability of Actuating Materials Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Beijing, China, 1-3 September, 2004

Actuating materials hold a promise for fast-spreading applications in smart structures and active control systems, and have attracted extensive attention from scientists of both mechanics and materials sciences communities. High performance and stability of actuating materials and structures play a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yang, W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Magnetostrictive Materials and Actuating Structures
  • Constitutive Models for Magnetostrictive Materials
  • Vibration Analysis of a Nonlinear Magnetostrictive Acutator
  • Test Study of the Feed-Support System for a Large Radio Telescope
  • Biological Actuating Materials
  • Biofilm Growth: Perspectives on Two-Phase Mixture Flow and Fingerings Formation
  • Damage and Fatigue of Actuating Heart Muscles
  • Ferroelectrics
  • A Switching Rule for Local Domain Wall Motions and for Macroscopic Material Response of Ferroelectrics
  • The Effects of Sieving Method and Poling Approach on the Internal Bias Field in Donor Doped PZT Ceramics
  • Interaction between Defects and Domain Walls in Piezoelectric Materials
  • In-Situ Observation of Electrically Induced Fatigue Crack Growth for Ferroelectric Single Crystals
  • Crack Initiation and Crack Propagation under Cyclic Electric Loading in PZT
  • Multiaxial Behavior of Ferroelectric Ceramic PZT53
  • Stability Analysis of 180° Domains in Ferroelectric Thin Films
  • Stress Analysis in two Dimensional Electrostrictive Material under General Loading
  • Piezoelectrics
  • Effect of Electric Fields on Fracture of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Materials
  • The Charge-Free Zone Model for Conductive Cracks in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Ceramics
  • Electrical Potential Drop Across a Crack in Piezoelectrics
  • Elastic Sv-Wave Scattering by an Interface Crack Between a Piezoelectric Layer and an Elastic Substrate
  • A Micro-Macro Approach to Design Active Piezoelectric Fiber Composites
  • Fem-Techniques for Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Crack Analyses in Smart Structures
  • Trefftz Plane Element of Piezoelectric Plate with p-Extension Capabilities
  • On Piezoelectric Actuator Layers in Plates and Shells at Large Deflections
  • Electric Charge Loading of a Piezoelectric Solid Cylinder
  • Oblique Propagation of Time Harmonic Waves in Periodic Piezoelectric Composite Layered Structures
  • Scattering Behaviour of Elastic Waves in 1–3 Piezoelectric Ceramics/Polymer Composites
  • Stress Analysis for an Anisotropic Solid with Variable Off-Axis of Anisotropy
  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Deformation Instability and Pattern Formation in Superelastic Shape Memory AlloyMicrotubes
  • Theoretical Consideration on the Fracture of Shape Memory Alloys
  • 3D Finite Element Simulation for Shape Memory Alloys