Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-Control Systems

Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-Control Systems,  grudzień 2009 r. : "Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators" covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and piezoceramics, magnetostrictive, shape-memory materials, and electro/magneto-rheological fluids; Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Fundamental concepts in mechanical vibration analysis and control with emphasis on distributed-parameters and vibration-control systems; and Recent advances in piezoelectric-based microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems design and implementation. TOC:Part I: Introduction and Overview of Mechanical Vibrations.- Introduction.- Vibrations of Lumped-Parameters Systems.- Variational Mechanics.- A Unified Approach to Vibrations of Distributed-Parameters Systems.- Part II: Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-Control Systems.- An Overview of Active Materials Utilized in Smart Structures.- Physical Principles and Constitutive Models of Piezoelectric Materials.- Hysteretic Characteristics of Piezoelectric Materials.- Piezoelectric-Based Systems Modeling.- Vibration Control Using Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors.- Part III: Piezoelectric-Based Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators.- Piezoelectric-Based Micro- and Nano-Positioning Systems.- Piezoelectric-Based Nanomechanical Cantilever Sensors.- Nanomaterials-Based Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors.- Appendix A: Mathematical Preliminaries.- Appendix B: Proofs of Selected Theorems.- References.- Index.