This Symposium provided an international forum for exchange of ideas and creation of knowledge in recent advances on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems.

Novel theories, mathematical models, analyses, and application of computational and experimental methods are topics treated. In particular, this work reflects the state of the art in mathematical modeling, computational methods, new experimental methods, new and advanced engineering applications in emerging technologies advanced sensors, structural health monitoring, MEMS, and advanced control systems.

Résumé
For centuries it has been the desire of human beings to ?nd better and better materials to achieve a variety of bene?ts for the mankind. This has been in vogue from the stone-age. The recent revolution discovering Smart Materials and Fu- tionally Graded Materials is one of those attempts. These materials are inherently multi functionaland theyopenedup possibilities whichcouldnot beimaginedinthe past. Materials can take a particulartype of energystimulusas input andgeneratean output belonging to a different type of energy. Typical example has been materials on which a mechanical force can produce electrical output. We are in twenty?rst century where in materials Research will totally concentrate on these new concepts and exploit them for variety of applications. Structural Health Monitoring leading to safety of operationsis the primary applicationthe aerospace, mechanical,nuclear and civil engineers will be expecting from this research. The Micro- and Na- scale sensors and actuators form the basis for this technology and Departments of Science and Technology in all the countries are investing heavily on this highly potential ?eld. InIndia,thescienti?cgroupinthisareaisactiveforthepastdecade. Theyformed in 1999 a professional society named as Institute of Smart Structures & Systems (ISSS) which has been holding National and International seminars and also he- ing the government departments to fund research and development of relevance to this novel materials and structures. National Program on Smart Materials (NPSM) and the second phase program NPMASS are the consequences of these efforts.

Contenu

New Materials A: Functionally Graded Materials & Shape Memory Alloys.- Functionally Graded Shells with Distributed Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators for Active Vibration Control.- A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Foams.- Nonlinear Stability of Functionally Graded Plates Subjected to Aero-thermo-mechanical Loads.- A Generalized Three Species Model for Shape Memory Alloys.- Use of SMA Constitutive Model in Finite Element Analysis of Wire-Based Actuators.- Time Dependent Deformations in Concrete: A Multi-scale Approach.- Higher Order Theories of Functionally Graded Beams and Plates.- New Materials B: Nano Materials and Composites.- A Strain Sensor from a Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite.- A Hysteresis Compensator Based on a Modified Dynamic Preisach Model for Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites.- Multi-Axial Behavior of Ferroelectrics with Two Types of Micro-Macro Mechanical Models.- Active Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites.- Modeling of Fibre Formation and Oxygen Permeability in Micro-fibrillar Polymer-Polymer Composites.- Multifunctional Material Systems.- Multiscale Computational Analysis of Biomechanical Systems.- Effect of Magnetic-Field on Stress-Strain Behavior of Magneto-Sensitive Elastomers.- Effects of Functionalization on the Morphology, Cure Kinetics and Mechanical Behavior of Thermosetting Polymers.- A Study on Polarization-Electric Field Nonlinearity in Smart Composite Structures.- Multifunctional Components in Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor: Design and Development.- Smart Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring.- From Structural Mechanics to Inspection Processes: Getting Structural Health Monitoring into Application for Riveted Metallic Structures.- Shaped Modal Sensors for Uncertain DynamicalSystems.- Sensor Failure Detection Using Interaction Matrix Formulation.- Resonant MEMS Sensors.- Applications.- Compressive Behavior of Fibre Reinforced Honeycomb Cores.- Strain-Space Solution for the Elasto-plastic Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joint.- Design and Development of a Smart Composite T-Tail for Transport Aircraft.- Manufacturing of Multi-functional Composites.- Computational Methods- I.- Iso-Spectral Rotating and Non-Rotating Beams.- Innovative Energy Absorbing Composite Tubes Incorporating Extension-Torsion Coupling, Stitch Ripping, and Foam Crushing.- A Pseudo-dynamical Systems Approach to Inverse Problems.- Force Reconstruction for Wave Based Damage Detection.- On Numerical Integration of Discontinuous Approximations in Partition of Unity Finite Elements.- Computational Methods II.- Approximate Evaluations of the Modal Effective Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient.- Distributed Point Source Model for Wave Propagation Through Multi-phase Systems.- Intrinsic Localized Modes in Micro-scale Oscillator Arrays Subjected to Deterministic Excitation and White Noise.- A Theoretical and Computational Framework for Modeling Diffusion-Driven Boundary Motion Without Remeshing.- Multiscale Simulation of Metal/Ceramic Interface Fracture.