Smart Materials and Structures detailed syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (Aero) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Aero students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Aeronautical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Aero 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to Aero Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of smart materials and structures is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
Piezoelectric Material Crystal Structure – Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity – Shape Memory Alloys – Fundamentals of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Behaviour – Phase Transformation -Lattice Structure and Deformation Mechanism – Electrostrictive Material Systems – ER and MR Fluids – Current Application – Aerospace Field – Machine Tools – Automotive Systems – Medical Systems – Electronics Equipment – Robots – Energy Harvesting Using Smart Materials.
Unit II
PIEZOELECTRIC THEORY
Electromechanical Constitutive Equations – Piezo ceramic Actuator & Sensor Equations -Piezoelectric Coupling Coefficients – Actuator Performance and Load Line Analysis – Hysteresis and Nonlinearities in Piezoelectric Materials – Piezo ceramic Actuators – Behavior under Static & Dynamic Excitation Fields – Depoling Behavior and Dielectric Breakdown – Curie Temperature – Power Consumption – Equivalent Circuits to Model Piezo ceramic Actuators – The Bimorph Sensor.
Unit III
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Unit IV
UNDERSTANDING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS (SMA)
Low Temperature Stress-Strain Curve – Origin of the One-Way Shape Memory Effect – Stress Induced Martensite and Pseudoelasticity – Two-Way Shape Memory Effect – All-Round Shape Memory Effect – R-Phase Transformation – Porous SMA – Constrained Behavior of SMA – Free Recovery – Constrained Recovery – Effective Load-Lines of an SMA Wire Actuator – Sample Preparation – Transformation Temperatures under Zero Stress.
Unit V
CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING AND SMA BEHAVIOUR
Tanaka Model – Liang and Rogers Model – Brinson Model – Testing of SMA Wires -Variation of Transformation Temperatures with Stress – Stress-Strain Behavior at Constant Temperature -Stress-Temperature Behavior at Constant Strain – Heat Absorbed by the SMA Wire -Thermomechanical Energy EquilibriumPower Requirements for SMA Activation – Resistance Behavior of SMA Wires – Heat Dissipation – SMA Wire Damping Capacity.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, Students will be able to
- Classify the various forms of functional materials.
- Investigate the Piezoelectric material behaviour.
- Investigate the behaviour of SMA material.
- Model a beam with Piezoelectric patch.
- Impart knowledge on modelling of SMA material.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Martin, J.W., Engineering Materials, Their properties and Applications, Wykedham Publications (London) Ltd., 1987.
- Prasad, N. Eswara, Wanhill, R. J. H, ‘Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies – Indian Institute of Metals Series, 2017.
- Sam Zhang, ‘Aerospace Materials Handbook (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering) 1st Edition , 2016.
- Van Vlack.L.H., Elements of Materials Science and Engineering Prentice Hall; Publishers, Sixth edition, 1989.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Aeronautical Engineering 6th Sem, visit Aero 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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