Recent Advances in Optimization of Smart Structures and Actuators

Recent Advances in Optimization of Smart Structures and Actuators

Much of the recent and past work in the area of smart materials and structures has focused on analysis of actuators and actively controlled systems. Although many sophisticated analysis models have been developed, they are often coupled with ad hoc design methods or informal optimization procedures. A subset of the work done by the smart structures community has focused on development of formal...

Recent Advances in Thiophene Based Molecular Actuators

A new class of molecular actuators where bulk actuation mechanisms such as ion intercalation are enhanced by controllable single molecule conformational rearrangements offers great promise to exhibit large active strains at moderate stresses. Initial activation of poly(quarterthiophene) based molecular muscles, for example, show active strains in the order of 20%. Molecular rearrangements in th...

Smart Materials, Precision Sensors/Actuators,Smart Structures, and Structronic Systems

Many electroactive functional materials have been used in smalland microscale transducers and precision mechatronic control systems for years. It was not until the mid-1980s that scientists started integrating electroactive materials with large-scale structures as in situ sensors and/or actuators, thus introducing the concept of smart materials, smart structures, and structronic systems. This p...

Recent Advances in Combinatorial Optimization

1College of Science, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China 2Department of Information Management, National Formosa University, Yun-Lin 632, Taiwan 3School of Economics & Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China 4Laboratoire IBISC, Université d’Evry-Val d’Essone, 40 rue Pelvoux, 91001 Evry, France 5LCOMS EA7306, Université de Lorraine, Ile du Saulcy, 57...

Recent Advances in Global Optimization