IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems: Proceedings of the the IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems, Bangalore, India, December 10-12, 2008

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Functionally Graded Shells with Distributed Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators for Active Vibration Control....Pages 3-13
A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Foams....Pages 15-24
Nonlinear Stability of Functionally Graded Plates Subjected to Aero-thermo-mechanical Loads....Pages 25-33
A Generalized Three Species Model for Shape Memory Alloys....Pages 35-43
Use of SMA Constitutive Model in Finite Element Analysis of Wire-Based Actuators....Pages 45-53
Time Dependent Deformations in Concrete: A Multi-scale Approach....Pages 55-64
Higher Order Theories of Functionally Graded Beams and Plates....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 76-76
A Strain Sensor from a Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite....Pages 77-86
A Hysteresis Compensator Based on a Modified Dynamic Preisach Model for Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites....Pages 87-94
Multi-Axial Behavior of Ferroelectrics with Two Types of Micro–Macro Mechanical Models....Pages 95-102
Active Single Walled Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Composites....Pages 103-110
Modeling of Fibre Formation and Oxygen Permeability in Micro-fibrillar Polymer-Polymer Composites....Pages 111-119
Front Matter....Pages 122-122
Multiscale Computational Analysis of Biomechanical Systems....Pages 123-131
Effect of Magnetic-Field on Stress–Strain Behavior of Magneto-Sensitive Elastomers....Pages 133-142
Effects of Functionalization on the Morphology, Cure Kinetics and Mechanical Behavior of Thermosetting Polymers....Pages 143-152
A Study on Polarization-Electric Field Nonlinearity in Smart Composite Structures....Pages 153-161
Multifunctional Components in Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor: Design and Development....Pages 163-173
Front Matter....Pages 176-176
From Structural Mechanics to Inspection Processes: Getting Structural Health Monitoring into Application for Riveted Metallic Structures....Pages 177-185
Shaped Modal Sensors for Uncertain Dynamical Systems....Pages 187-197
Sensor Failure Detection Using Interaction Matrix Formulation....Pages 199-210
Front Matter....Pages 176-176
Resonant MEMS Sensors....Pages 211-220
Front Matter....Pages 222-222
Compressive Behavior of Fibre Reinforced Honeycomb Cores....Pages 223-231
Strain-Space Solution for the Elasto-plastic Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joint....Pages 233-240
Design and Development of a Smart Composite T-Tail for Transport Aircraft....Pages 241-249
Manufacturing of Multi-functional Composites....Pages 251-257
Front Matter....Pages 260-260
Iso-Spectral Rotating and Non-Rotating Beams....Pages 261-268
Innovative Energy Absorbing Composite Tubes Incorporating Extension-Torsion Coupling, Stitch Ripping, and Foam Crushing....Pages 269-278
A Pseudo-dynamical Systems Approach to Inverse Problems....Pages 279-288
Force Reconstruction for Wave Based Damage Detection....Pages 289-296
On Numerical Integration of Discontinuous Approximations in Partition of Unity Finite Elements....Pages 297-304
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Approximate Evaluations of the Modal Effective Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient....Pages 307-315
Distributed Point Source Model for Wave Propagation Through Multi-phase Systems....Pages 317-324
Intrinsic Localized Modes in Micro-scale Oscillator Arrays Subjected to Deterministic Excitation and White Noise....Pages 325-334
A Theoretical and Computational Framework for Modeling Diffusion-Driven Boundary Motion Without Remeshing....Pages 335-342
Multiscale Simulation of Metal/Ceramic Interface Fracture....Pages 343-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-358