Piezoelectric-Based Vibration Control: From Macro to Micro/Nano Scale Systems

by Nader Jalili

Overview

“Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators” covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and piezoceramics, magnetostrictive, shape-memory materials, and electro/magneto-rheological fluids; Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Fundamental concepts in mechanical vibration analysis and control with emphasis on distributed-parameters and vibration-control systems; and Recent advances in piezoelectric-based microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems design and implementation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441900708
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	11/25/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	517
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Nader Jalili is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. Previously he served as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He received a Ph.D. degree in 1988, from the University of Connteticut. His present research works are chiefly on piezoelectric-based sensors/actuators, nanocomposites, piezoelectric-based nano-stager for microscopy applications, vibration control in automobiles, and e-textiles Founding Chair, Technical Committee on Vibration and Control of Smart Structures, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) .

He’s currently Associate Editor, ASME Transactions on Dynamic Systems, Measurements and Control and the Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics. He’s published over 45 journal articles and was a receipient of an NSF Young Investigator Career Award in 2003 for his work in the area of nanomanufacturing.

Table of Contents

and Overview of Mechanical Vibrations.- An Introduction to Vibrations of Lumped-Parameters Systems.- A Brief Introduction to Variational Mechanics.- A Unified Approach to Vibrations of Distributed-Parameters Systems.- Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-Control Systems.- An Overview of Active Materials Utilized in Smart Structures.- Physical Principles and Constitutive Models of Piezoelectric Materials.- Hysteretic Characteristics of Piezoelectric Materials.- Piezoelectric-Based Systems Modeling.- Vibration Control Using Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors.- Piezoelectric-Based Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators.- Piezoelectric-Based Micro- and Nano-Positioning Systems.- Piezoelectric-Based Nanomechanical Cantilever Sensors.- Nanomaterial-Based Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors.