Multifield Problems
Learning Target
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Students should attend the lectures and the tutorials.
- to understand the fundamental concepts of adaptive/multifunctional structures and the differences between active and passive structures,
- to recognize and be capable of explaining basic terms of the subject area (actor, sensor, stimulus, shape adaptation, ...),
- to know application areas and concrete application examples,
- to know and distinguish the different materials presented during the lectures in relation to their characteristic (strengths/weaknesses, behavior, description of the material law, applications and many others),
- to learn about modeling and simulation approaches for the particular material,
- to understand how to solve simple tasks by using the presented approaches,
- to know the fundamental concepts of continuum mechanics.
Content
- Vorlesung/Lecture (2 SWS = 2 Weekly 'hours' of 45 minutes)
- Übung/Tutorial (2 SWS)
Offer for
Students in the main course of study CMS.
Certificate of achievement
- Basic knowledge in Mathematics, Algebra, Mechanics of Materials and Material Technology.
- Written exam consisting of two separated tests to perform the same day*:
- Questions (Theory part 1 + Theory part 2) circa 60% of the grade - 60 min,
- Exercises (Tutorial) circa 40% of the grade - 60 min.
Literature
- Chopra, I. and Sirohi, J., 2013. Smart structures theory (Vol. 35). Cambridge University Press.
- Bar-Cohen, Y., 2001. Electroactive polymer actuators as artificial muscles. SPIE, Washington.
- Leo, D.J., 2007. Engineering analysis of smart material systems. John Wiley & Sons.
- Reddy, J.N., 2007. An introduction to continuum mechanics. Cambridge university press.
- Gurtin, M.E., Fried, E. and Anand, L., 2010. The mechanics and thermodynamics of continua. Cambridge University Press.
- Holzapfel, A.G., 2000. Nonlinear solid mechanics II.
- Riley, K.F., Hobson, M.P. and Bence, S.J., 1999. Mathematical methods for physics and engineering.
- for further books and scientific publications, please ask me.