Smart structures and MEMS have a great potential for strategic and commercial exploitation. India, with its continued emphasis on science and technology, has made forays into this exciting area with well-planned, compact national programmes aimed at technology and systems development. This paper presents the fruits of these national initiatives.
KEYWORDS: Actuators, Sensors, Finite element methods, Smart structures, Software development, Electric field sensors, Ferroelectric polymers, Composites, Electroluminescence, Chemical elements
This paper presents Finite Element analysis of structures with surface bonded piezoelectric patches. The objective of the present investigation is to develop layered piezoelectric elements which can be combined with the plate bending elements in a general purpose software such as MSC/NASTRAN, as a sensor/actuator for the analysis of smart structures. After thorough validation, numerical results are generated for various piezo-electric parameters.
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Second International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering
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