MECH 513: Smart Materials and Intelligent Structural Systems
MECH 513: Smart Materials and Intelligent Structural Systems
Module home page for academic year 2006/07

Definitive Module Record for MECH513: assessment is 50% examination and 50% coursework.
Reading List.  Subject Index to assist in finding specific resources.

The definition used here is that:

Staff teaching on this module:

School of Engineering (SOE):
Stephen Grove
 
David Plane
 
John Summerscales
(module leader)

School of
Computing, Communications and Electronics
(SCCE):
David Jenkins
Des Mapps
Larissa Panina

Students will attend the following composites lectures for MATS324 in Term 1:

and the lectures for MATS324 plus those below in Term 2:

 Week number  SCCE lecturers
   DRAFT: Lecture on Monday 14:00-15:00 in SMB 203
  Tutorial on Tuesday 14:00-15:00 in Smeaton 203
24  Panina: Overview of sensor characteristics.  Electromagnetic sensors
25  Panina: Basic principles of Giant Magneto Resistance and GMI effects (comparative analysis).  Low- and high-frequency GMI effect
26  Panina: GMI materials (wires and multilayers) and characteristics
27  Mapps:
28  Mapps:
29  Mapps:
30  Jenkins: MEMS in general.  The cantilever - a simple MEMS structure and its characteristics
31  Jenkins: MEMS capacitive accelerometers.  Piezoelectric actuators and sensors including reinforced PZT-epoxy thick films
32  Panina: Composite materials with magnetic fibres as sensing antennas
33  Panina: Remote stress monitoring using magnetic wire composites
34  Mapps:
35  Mapps:

A useful series of papers on smart materials appear in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2007, Volume 221 Number 4.

MATERIALS ENGINEERING

MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION

  • Amorphous and crystalline materials, anisotropy
  • Elastic, dynamic, fracture and thermal properties
  • Electromagnetic properties (Panina)
  • Microscopy, non-destructive testing (Summerscales)

ADVANCED COMPOSITES

NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOMIMETICS AND SUSTAINABILITY SENSORS, (CONTROL) AND ACTUATORS
  • Sensors
  • Optical fibres, photochromic materials
  • Resistive, dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, electrostrictive, magnetostrictive
  • Signal processing, control, optimisation and systems integration (refers to the complementary Control and Robotics module)
  • Actuators
  • Pneumatic, hydraulic and electromechanical systems
  • Electroactive polymers, shape memory materials, electro-rheological fluids
CONDITION MONITORING AND STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

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Created by John Summerscales on 20 January 2006 and updated on 14 July 2009 16:38. Terms and conditions. Errors and omissions. Corrections.
Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre
School of Engineering
Faculty of Technology
University of Plymouth
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