Smart materials and structures: state of the art and applications

Nader H Ghareeb; Mohamad H Farhat

doi:10.21767/2471-9838-C6-025

Smart materials and structures: state of the art and applications

EuroSciCon Conference on Nanotechnology & Smart Materials
October 04 -06 ,2018 Amsterdam , Netherlands

Nader H Ghareeb and Mohamad H Farhat

Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Nano Res Appl

DOI: 10.21767/2471-9838-C6-025

Abstract

The world of materials is an exciting and challenging field of research since it has always played a dominant role in the evolution of human civilization. The demands from diverse industrial branches (aerospace, automotive, defence, etc.) on much more advanced materials has led to the development of a new generation of materials surpassing conventional structural and functional materials and thus, the era of smart materials has started. Typical smart materials retain the ability to change their physical properties in a specific manner in response to a specific stimulus input. However, there is still a blurry image over the types and potential applications of smart materials. Moreover, smart materials and structures research includes many technically diverse fields that it is quite common for one field to completely misunderstand the terminology and start of the art in other fields. The purpose of this study is to better define the smart materials and structures field, its current status and its potential benefits. Results are presented and discussed. Finally, in order to demonstrate the characteristics of one class of smart materials, a numerical example is proposed and results are presented.