This new edition of our 2016 book provides insight into designing intelligent materials and structures for special application in engineering. Literature is updated throughout and a new chapter on optics fibers has been added. The book discusses simulation and experimental determination of physical material properties, such as piezoelectric effects, shape memory, electro-rheology, and distributed control for vibrations minimization.

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Haim Abramovich received his B.Sc. in 1975 and his M.Sc. in 1978 at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He became a research fellow at the Aerospace Department at Delft University (The Netherlands) and graduated in 1983 at the Technion in Israel. He worked at the Fuse Department, Telkoor Electronics Ltd., and as a guest professor at the "Institut für Leichtbau und Seilbahntechnik" at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland). Since 1990 he is professor at the Technion in Israel, where he teaches a course on "Intelligent Structures" for undergraduate and graduate students.