Smart Materials and Technologies

CONTENTS

1 Materials in architecture and design
1.4 Characteristics of smart materials and systems "Whether a molecule, a materials, a composite, an assembly, or a system, 'smart materials and technologies' will exhibit the following characteristics:

Immediacy - they respond in real time
Transiency - they respond to more than one environmental state
Self-actuation - intelligence is internal to rather than external to the 'material'.
Selectivity - their response is discrete and predictable.
Directness - the response is local to the 'activating' event"

2 Fundameltal characterizations of materials

1. Traditional material classification systems
2. Alternative classification systems
3. Classification systems for advanced and smart materials
4. The internal structure of materials
5. Properties of materials
6. Generals classes of materials
7. Nanomaterials
   

3 Energy : behaviour, phenomena and environments
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3.7 The acousic Envoronment

4 Types and characteristics of smart materials

1. Fundamental characteristics
2. Type 1 smart materials - property-changing
3. Type 2 smart materials - energy-exchanging