Download or read book Smart Materials, Structures, and Mathematical Issues written by Craig A. Rogers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1989-08-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from a US Army Research Office Workshop, this collection of papers describes applications in electrorheological fluids, sensor/actuator films, self-adaptive structures, and shape-memory materials. Smart materials, a new class of materials of strategic and economic importance, are viewed as providing new opportunities in polymer materials, ceramics, electronic materials, metals, and composite materials. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR