Smart Materials Actuators: Recent Advances in Characterization and Applications

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BISAC: TEC007000

In the last two decades, a great effort has been directed towards the development of new smart materials actuators and their corresponding application devices and systems. Currently, some smart materials actuators are commercially applied for several technologies including automotive technology, but some of the smart materials actuators are still far from meeting strict practical requirements such as reliability, cost-effectiveness and robustness against unexpected environment conditions. Therefore, it is timely and appropriate to present recent research on smart materials actuators in terms of material characterization and advanced application systems in a single book. This book describes smart materials actuator technology from materials characterizations to device or system applications.

The smart materials introduced in this book include magnetorehological fluid (MRF), magnetorheological elastomer (MRE), electrorheological fluid (ERF), piezoelectric material (PM), shape memory ally (SMA), dielectric elastomer (DE) and ionic polymer (IP). Both physical and chemical characterizations of each smart material are described in details in terms of actuating aspect. In addition, several application devices utilizing each smart material are introduced to provide practical controllability as a potential candidate for new actuators. The application devices introduced in this book include MRF damper for automotive suspension, PM unimorph pump for micro-hydraulic system, MRE flexible structure for vibration control, IP biomimetic micro-robot and SMA civil structure and damper system for vibration attenuation. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Influence of Particle Shape on the Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Magnetorheological Fluid with Application to a Small-Sized Damper
(Kruti Shah, Do Xuan Phu, Seung-Bok Choi, Smart Structures and Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea)

Smart Material of Shape Memory Alloys in Civil Engineering
(Eunsoo Choi, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea)

PUMPS (Piezoelectric Unimorph with Mechanically Pre-stressed Substrate) and its Applications
(Lae-Hyong Kang, Jae-Hung Han, Dept. of Mechatronics Eng. and Los Alamos National Laboratory-Chonbuk National University Engineering Institute Korea, Chonbuk National University, Korea, and other)

A Novel Magnetorheological Elastomer Isolator with Achievable Negative Stiffness for Vibration Reduction
(J. Yang, S.S. Sun, H. Du, and W.H. Li, School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, and other)

Material Characterization of GER Fluid in Sedimentation Effect of Different Carrier Liquid
(Yaying Hong, Weijia Wen, Department of Physics, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Recent Advances in Vibration-based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
(Jung Woo Sohn, Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, Korea)

Material Characterization of Magnetorheolgical Fluids
(Seung Hyuk Kwon, Shang Hao Piao and Hyoung Jin Choi, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea)

Material Preparation and Characterization of Magnetorheological Elastomers
(Miao Yu, Key Laboratory for Optoelectronic Technology and Systems of Ministry of Education, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)

Recent Developments of Magneto-Rheological Elastomers for Civil Engineering Applications
(M. Usman and H. J. Jung, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, and other)

Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators
(Il-Kwon Oh and Jin-Han Jeon, School of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea)

Sustainable Materials based Flexible Actuators
(Jaehwan Kim, Seongcheol Mun, Lindong Zhai, Hyun-U Ko, MD Mohiuddin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Ku, Incheon, Republic of Korea)

Properties and Applications of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
(Canh Toan Nguyen, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Gyeonggi, Korea)

Characterizations and Applications of Shape Memory Polymers
(Nam Seo Goo and Ngoc San Ha, Smart Microsystem Research Lab., Department of Advanced Technology Fusion, Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konkuk University, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea)

Index


Audience: Researchers and graduate students for sensors and actuators of smart materials and structures.

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