IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems

Preface; Contributing Authors; Section I: New Materials A: Functionally Graded Materials & Shape Memory Alloys: Functionally Graded Shells with Distributed Piezo-Electric Sensors and Actuators for Active Vibration Control, by S.Narayanan and V.Balmurugan; A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Foams, by Stephen Kiernan, Liang Cui and Michael. D. Gilchrist; Nonlinear Stability of Functionally Graded Plates subjected to Aero-Thermal- Mechanical Loads, by M.Ganapathi and T. Prakash and M. K. Singha; A Generalized Three Species Model for Shape Memory Alloys, by Ashish Khandelwal and Vidyashankar R. Buravalla; Use of SMA constitutive model in Finite Element Analysis of wire based actuators, by Prakash D Mangalgiri and Amol G Thakare; Time Dependent Deformations in Concrete A Multi-scale Approach, by Ananth Ramaswamy, Reddy and Harinadh; Higher Order Theories of Functionally graded beams and plates, by Tarun Kant, S.M.Shiyekar and C.Venkata Subbaiah; Section II: New Materials B: Nano Materials and Composites: Strain Sensor From a Polymer/Carbon Nano-tube/Nano-composites, by Ning Hu, Yoshifumi Karube and Hisao Fukunaga; A Hysteresis Compensator Based on A Modified Dynamic Preisach Model for Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites, by Mohammed R. Sunny and Rakesh K. Kapania; Multi-axial Behavior of Ferroelectrics with Two Types of Micro-Macro Mechanical Model, by K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, A. Menzel, and S.M. Sivakumar; Active Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites, by Sujay Deshmukh and Zoubeida Ounaies; Modeling of fiber Formation and Oxygen permeability in Micro-/Nano-/Fibrillar Polymer - Polymer Composites, by D.Bhattacharyya and R.J.Shields; Section III: Multifunctional Material Systems: Multi-scale Computational Analysis of Bio-mechanical Systems, by V. U. Unnikrishnan, G. U. Unnikrishnan and J. N. Reddy; Effect of magnetic-field on stress-strain behavior of magneto-sensitive elastomers, by PrashantKumar Srivastava and Kartik