Adaptive Structures – Engineering Applications

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(2007), "Adaptive Structures – Engineering Applications", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 79 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2007.12779fae.001

Adaptive Structures – Engineering Applications

Adaptive Structures – Engineering Applications

Editors: David Wagg, Ian Bond, Paul Weaver, Michael FriswellFaculty of Engineering, University of Bristol

Adaptive structures have the ability to adapt, evolve or change their properties or behaviour in response to the environment around them. The analysis and design of adaptive structures requires a highly multi- disciplinary approach which includes elements of structures, materials, dynamics, control, design and inspiration taken from biological systems. Development of adaptive structures has been taking place in a wide range of industrial applications, but is particularly advanced in the aerospace and space technology sector with morphing wings, deployable space structures, piezoelectric devices and vibration control of tall buildings.

Bringing together some of the foremost world experts in adaptive structures, this unique text:

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  includes discussions of the application of adaptive structures in the aerospace, military, civil engineering structures, automotive and MEMS;

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  presents the impact of biological inspiration in designing adaptive structures, particularly the use of hierarchy in nature, which typically induces multi-functional behavior; and

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  sets the agenda for future research in adaptive structures in one distinctive single volume.

The book contains contributions from 21 experts on the concept of adaptive structures. Each chapter, in this well illustrated book, represents the current state of the art in a particular aspect of adaptive structures.

This book forms a permanent record of the 2006 Colston Research Society Symposium on Adaptive Structures, held at the University of Bristol.

Adaptive Structures: Engineering Applications is essential reading for engineers and scientists working in the fields of intelligent materials, structural vibration, control and related smart technologies. It will also be of interest to senior undergraduate and postgraduate research students as well as design engineers working in the aerospace, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering sectors.

Details available from: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Tel: +44 1243 779777.