Smart Electroceramics

“Smart” materials have the ability to perform both sensing and actuating functions. Passively smart materials respond to external change in a useful manner without assistance, whereas actively smart materials have a feedback loop which allows them to both recognize the change and initiate an appropr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Ceramic Society 1991-03, Vol.74 (3), p.463-480
Hauptverfasser: Newnham, Robert E., Ruschau, Gregory R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:“Smart” materials have the ability to perform both sensing and actuating functions. Passively smart materials respond to external change in a useful manner without assistance, whereas actively smart materials have a feedback loop which allows them to both recognize the change and initiate an appropriate response through an actuator circuit. Many smart materials are analogous to biological systems: piezoelectric hydrophones are similar in mechanism to the “ears” by which a fish senses vibrations. Piezoelectrics with electromechanical coupling, shape‐memory materials that can “remember” their original shape, electrorheological fluids with adjustable viscosities, and chemical sensors which act as synthetic equivalents to the human nose are examples of smart electroceramics. “Very smart” materials, in addition to sensing and actuating, have the ability to “learn” by altering their property coefficients in response to the environment. Integration of these different technologies into compact, multifunction packages is the ultimate goal of research in the area of smart materials.
ISSN:0002-7820
1551-2916
DOI:10.1111/j.1151-2916.1991.tb04047.x