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Week - 1 |
Definition of smart materials, sensors, actuators and transducers; introduction to different types of smart material |
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Week - 2 |
Smart materials; history and industrial application |
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Week - 3 |
Piezoelectric materials – Crystallography and crystal structure, mechanism of piezolelectricity |
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Week - 4 |
Piezoelectric materials – Common piezoelectric materials |
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Week - 5 |
Piezoelectric materials - Applications |
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Week - 6 |
Superelasticity, superelastic materials phase transformation |
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Week - 7 |
Shape memory alloys – Martensitic transformations, shape memory effect and superelasticity |
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Week - 8 |
Shape memory alloys – Mechanical behavior and shape memory characteristics of different shape memory alloy systems |
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Week - 9 |
Ti-Ni Phase diagrams |
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Week - 10 |
Shape memory alloys – Modeling (overview of constitutive and phenomenological models) |
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Week - 11 |
Shape memory alloys – Design (one way, two way shape memory effect) and general applications (connectors, couplings, actuators) |
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Week - 12 |
Shape memory alloys – Applications (Case studies: energy harvesting, passive vibration damping, retrofitting, morphing aerostructures) |
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Week - 13 |
Superelastic metals industrial applications |
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Week - 14 |
Final project presentations |
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