IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems

Preface; Contributing Authors; Section I: New Materials A: Functionally Graded Materials & Shape Memory Alloys: Functionally Graded Shells with Distributed Piezo-Electric Sensors and Actuators for Active Vibration Control, by S.Narayanan and V.Balmurugan; A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Foams, by Stephen Kiernan, Liang Cui and Michael. D. Gilchrist; Nonlinear Stability of Functionally Graded Plates subjected to Aero-Thermal- Mechanical Loads, by M.Ganapathi and T. Prakash and M. K. Singha; A Generalized Three Species Model for Shape Memory Alloys, by Ashish Khandelwal and Vidyashankar R. Buravalla; Use of SMA constitutive model in Finite Element Analysis of wire based actuators, by Prakash D Mangalgiri and Amol G Thakare; Time Dependent Deformations in Concrete A Multi-scale Approach, by Ananth Ramaswamy, Reddy and Harinadh; Higher Order Theories of Functionally graded beams and plates, by Tarun Kant, S.M.Shiyekar and C.Venkata Subbaiah; Section II: New Materials B: Nano Materials and Composites: Strain Sensor From a Polymer/Carbon Nano-tube/Nano-composites, by Ning Hu, Yoshifumi Karube and Hisao Fukunaga; A Hysteresis Compensator Based on A Modified Dynamic Preisach Model for Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites, by Mohammed R. Sunny and Rakesh K. Kapania; Multi-axial Behavior of Ferroelectrics with Two Types of Micro-Macro Mechanical Model, by K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, A. Menzel, and S.M. Sivakumar; Active Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites, by Sujay Deshmukh and Zoubeida Ounaies; Modeling of fiber Formation and Oxygen permeability in Micro-/Nano-/Fibrillar Polymer - Polymer Composites, by D.Bhattacharyya and R.J.Shields; Section III: Multifunctional Material Systems: Multi-scale Computational Analysis of Bio-mechanical Systems, by V. U. Unnikrishnan, G. U. Unnikrishnan and J. N. Reddy; Effect of magnetic-field on stress-strain behavior of magneto-sensitive elastomers, by PrashantKumar Srivastava and Kartik Venkatraman; Effect of Functionalization on the Morphology, Cure Kinetics and Mechanical Behavior of Thermo-Setting Polymers, by Mahesh V. Hosur, Merlin Theodore and Shaik Jeelani; A Study on Polarization-Electric Field (P E) Nonlinearity in Smart Composite Structures, by V. L. Sateesh, C. S. Upadhyay and C. Venkatesan; Multi-functional Components in Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor: Design and Development, by Baldev Raj and P.Chellapandi; Section IV: Smart Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring: From Structural Mechanics to Inspection Processes - Getting Structural Health Monitoring into Application for Metallic Structures, by C. Boller, M. R. Mofakhami; Shaped Modal Sensors for Uncertain Dynamical Systems, by Michael I. Friswell and Sondipon Adhikari; Sensor Failure Detection using Interaction Matrix Formulation, by Zhiling Li, Satish Nagarajaiah and B. H. Koh; Resonant MEMS Sensors, by Rudra Pratap; Section V: Applications: Compressive Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Honeycomb Cores, by S.Rao, S.Banerjee, K.Jayaraman and D.Bhattacharyya; Strain-Space Solutionfor the Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap-Joint, by B.M.Diwari and P.C.Pandey; Design and Development of a Smart Composite T-tail for Transport Aircraft, by Raja Samikkannu; Manufacturing of Multi-Functional composites, by Prasad Potluri and Robert Young; Section VI: Computational Methods- I: Iso-Spectral Rotating and Non-Rotating Beams, by Ananth Kumar and Ranjan Ganguli;Innovative energy absorption and load limiting via extension-torsion coupled stitch ripping composite tubes with crush foam filling, by C. Tiwari, Edward C. Smith, and Charles E. Bakis; Pseudo-Dynamical Systems Approach to Inverse Problems, by B. Banerjee and D. Roy; Force Reconstruction for Wave Based Damage Detection, by Agam Sharan and Mira Mitra; On Numerical Integration of Discontinuous Approximations in Partition Of Unity Finite Elements, by Sundararajan Natarajan and St´ephane P. A. Bordas

This Symposium provided an international forum for exchange of ideas and creation of knowledge in recent advances on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems.

Novel theories, mathematical models, analyses, and application of computational and experimental methods are topics treated. In particular, this work reflects the state of the art in mathematical modeling, computational methods, new experimental methods, new and advanced engineering applications in emerging technologies advanced sensors, structural health monitoring, MEMS, and advanced control systems.