Course Objective

• To study various types of smart materials used in engineering application
• Analyse, interpret and study the processing of smart materials.
• Assess which methods of characterisation are appropriate for different material combinations
• Get knowledge of the use of smart materials as sensors and actuators.

Course Outcome

After successful completion of the course, Students will be able to:

• Overview of smart materials, Traditional v/s Smart systems, Smart sensors and actuators, Smart materials for sensing and actuating, Direct effect and converse effect, Smart actuators.
• Piezoelectric materials, piezoceramic actuator, Constitutive relationship, Piezo ceramic polymers and composites, Bio morphs, and piezo stacks.
• Magnetostriction, magnetostrictive materials, Butterfly curve, applications. Active smart polymers, classification of electro-active polymers, Comparison of EEAPS and IEAP applications, IPMC – actuators.
• Shape memory effect (SME), alloys with SME, one–way SME, Pseudo elasticity, two–way SME, Applications of SMA, Nitinol, Copper-based SMA, and Iron-based SMA. Other SMA materials. Phenomenology of shape memory alloys, Manufacturing of SMA, Mechanical and thermal characterisation of shape memory alloys.
• Electro-rheological Fluids, Magneto Rheological Fluids. Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Transducers, Energy Harvesting Materials, Self-Healing Polymers, Intelligent System Design, Emergent System Design

• Brian Culshaw, Smart Structures and Materials, Artech House, 2000
• Gauenzi, P., Smart Structures, Wiley, 2009
• Cady, W. G., Piezoelectricity, Dover Publication
• Antonio Concilio, Vincenza Antonucci, Ferdinando Auricchio, Leonardo Lecce, Elio Sacco., Shape memory alloy engineering for aerospace, structural, and bio-medical applications, Second edition, 2021.