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Victor Giurgiutiu
Concepts of Adaptronic Structures
Keywords: active materials, adaptive structures, piezoelectrics, magnetostrictive, morphing structures
For some time, engineers and scientists have been using the nature as an inspiration for their design of advanced robotics and mechanical systems. Today, nature has also become the inspiration for an entire new class of material systems — the adaptronic structures [1]. Using biological analogies and nature´s ability to adapt a material´s structure, morphology, shape, and properties to accommodate its changing environment and its aging process, present day engineers and scientists are designing material systems that can change their shape, control their vibrations, monitor their own health, and perform many other biological-inspired functions.
at – Automatisierungstechnik, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Print ISSN: 0178-2312
Volume: 54, 06/2006
Pages: 251 - 258