Smart Materials and Intelligent System Design
Smart Materials and Intelligent System Design. Instructor: Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Smart Structures and Intelligent System are becoming an integral part of new aerospace and automobile systems due to high performance and fast response potential. Knowledge in this field is multidisciplinary in nature involving materials, composites, basic electronics, control system and informatics. This course intends to convey the core flavor of the field by introducing the basic concepts behind such system along with some industrial applications developed in the SMSS laboratory of IIT Kanpur. (from nptel.ac.in)
Lecture 02 - Piezoelectric Material |
Topics covered in this lecture: 1) History of Piezoelectricity, 2) Piezoelectric Materials, 3) How to prepare a Piezoceramic Actuator? 4) Constitutive Relationship, 5) Piezoceramic Polymers and Composites, 6) Bimorphs and Piezo stacks.
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