Li, Wenzhou Luo, Mingzhang Chen, Feng
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Smart Materials and Structures
The property of concrete is very significant to structural safety, and the early hydration process plays a critical role in the final concrete property. This paper develops a self-emission and detection (SED) principle with a single piezoelectric smart aggregate (SA) transducer, which is used as both an actuator and a sensor, to monitor the concret...
Feng, Yixiong Yan, Weiyu Qiu, Hao Hong, Zhaoxi Zeng, Siyuan Xu, Junjun Cui, Kaiyue Tan, Jianrong
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Smart Materials and Structures
Organisms with self-helix structures are widely found in nature. Four-dimensional (4D) printing have been realized by designing structures and programming deformation of smart materials. This paper presents an innovative method of controlled self-helix structures by designing and fabricating of a bilayer structure with smart material polylactic aci...
Soleyman, E Rahmatabadi, D Soltanmohammadi, K Aberoumand, M Ghasemi, I Abrinia, K Baniassadi, M Wang, K Baghani, M
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Smart Materials and Structures
The main novelty of this paper is the use of poly-ethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) as a new shape memory polymer with excellent shape memory effect (SME) and printability. In addition, for the first time, the effect of programming temperature on PETG 4D printed samples has been studied. The amorphous nature of the PETG necessitates that molecul...
Kumar, Amritesh Arockiarajan, A
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Smart Materials and Structures
Layered or 2-2 configuration magnetoelectric (ME) composites have gained significant interest in the last few decades owing to their ease of fabrication and relatively high ME output realizable at room temperature. Conventionally, layered ME composites are fabricated by bonding the constituent magnetostrictive and piezoelectric layers via an epoxy ...
Sulatchaneenopdon, Narongdet Shen, Zhiming Son, Hyoung-Won Khantachawana, Anak Garcia-Barruetabena, Jon Elejabarrieta, Maria Jesus Takahashi, Tsutomu Nakayama, Tadachika Niihara, Koichi
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Smart Materials and Structures
Recently, vibration control has been useful in various engineering fields such as aerospace, adaptive dynamic vibration absorbers, and infrastructure. Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) is an interesting material for controlling and suppressing undesirable vibrations through the application of a magnetic field. The present study aims at analyzing t...
Sun, Jianfeng Gu, Dongdong Lin, Kaijie Yuan, Luhao Yang, Jiankai Chen, Wei
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Smart Materials and Structures
This work aimed to propose a feasible lattice structure to fully exploit the advantages of NiTi shape memory alloy, providing more options for the development of functional components such as micro-vibration isolators and smart actuators in the aerospace field. Inspired from the Campylodiscus diatom frustule, the novel NiTi-based truss lattice stru...
Li, Zhenghong Liu, Yuheng Lu, Haibao Shu, Dong-Wei
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Smart Materials and Structures
Auxetic metamaterials attract wide attention due to their unusual mechanical behaviours. This work explores the tunability of the bidirectionally hyperbolic deformation of thin plates under uniaxial compression, instead of the Euler buckling deformation. Inspired by the horseshoe structures, through tuning the radius and thickness of the central ci...
Jian, Yupei Tang, Lihua Hu, Guobiao Wang, Yuesheng Aw, Kean C
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Smart Materials and Structures
Piezoelectric metamaterials with shunt resonant circuits have been extensively investigated for their tunability in bandgaps. However, the vibration attenuation ability induced by the electromechanical coupling is generally weaker than that of mechanical metamaterials, limiting their applications in engineering practice. This research presents a no...
Ahmed, Faheem Waqas, Muhammad Jawed, Bushra Soomro, Afaque Manzoor Kumar, Suresh Hina, Ashraf Khan, Umair Kim, Kyung Hwan Choi, Kyung Hyun
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Smart Materials and Structures
Soft robotics is an emerging field of robotics that focuses on the design of soft machines and devices with effective human-machine interaction, high conformity, and environmental adaptability. The conventional robots made of hard materials have already achieved precision and accuracy, but they lack in reachability, adaptability, degree of freedom,...
Jamshidi, Rasa Collette, Christophe
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In this paper, a straightforward procedure is presented for optimal design of negative derivative feedback (NDF) controller with maximum damping and H2 optimization method. NDF is a controller, which works as a band-pass filter, cutting off the control action far from the natural frequencies associated with the controlled modes and reducing spillov...