Smart Materials detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE 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 Materials Science & Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of smart materials is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Intelligent / Smart materials – Functional materials – Polyfunctional materials – Structural materials, Electrical materials, bio-compatible materials. – Intelligent biological materials – Biomimetics – Wolff’s Law – Biocompatibility – Material response: swelling and leaching, corrosion and dissolution, deformation and failure, friction and wear – host response: the inflammatory process – coagulation and hemolysis – in vitro and in vivo evaluation of biomaterials.
Unit II
ELECTRO-RHEOLOGICAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS 9
The principal ingredients of smart materials -microsensors- hybrid smart materials – an algorithm for synthesizing smart materials – active, passive reactive actuator based smart structures- suspensions and electro-rheological fluids – Bingham body model – principal characteristics of electro-rheological fluids – charge migration mechanism for the dispersed phase – electro- rheological fluid domain – fluid actuators- design parameter – application of Electo-rheological fluids –
Unit III
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Unit IV
SHAPE MEMORY MATERIALS 9
Nickel – Titanium alloy (Nitinol) – Materials characteristics of Nitinol – martensitic transformations -austenitic transformations – thermoelastic martensitic transformations- classification of SMA alloys-mechanism of magnetic SMA
Unit V
APPLICATIONS OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS 9
Continuum applications of SMA fasteners – SMA fibers – reaction vessels, nuclear reactors, chemical plant, etc. – micro robot actuated by SMA – SMA memorization process (Satellite Antenna Applications) SMA blood clot filter – Impediments to applications of SMA – Shape memory polymers- mechanism of shape memory-Primary moulding – secondary moulding- types and applications.
Course Outcomes:
Upon Completion of the Course, the students will be able to
- Discuss the different Smart materials.
- Describe the functions of Electro-Rheological Materials and their suitability for various applications.
- Deiscuss the functions of Piezoelectric Materials and their suitability for various applications.
- Explain the principle of shape memory effect and the transformations that occur in smart materials.
- Select a suitable smart material for a given application
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Duerig,T. W., Melton, K. N, Stockel, D. and Wayman, C.M., “Engineering aspects of Shape memory Alloys”, Butterworth – Heinemann, 1990
- Mel Schwartz (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Smart Materials” Volume -I and II, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.2002
- Rogers, C. A., Smart Materials, “Structures and Mathematical issues”, Technomic Publishing Co., U.S.A, 1989
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Materials Science & Engineering 5th Sem, visit MSE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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