Smart structure

Then, in the early and mid-1 990s, CAS developed SciFinder and SciFinder Sc ho lar to address the needs of professional chemists and other scientists. SciFinder was developed to allow more intelligence in data access, such as smart structure searching, research topic exploration, advanced author searching, and powerful refine and analysi.s capabilities including categorize and panorama". 

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Intelligent structures are smart structures that have the added capability of learning and adapting rather than simply responding in a programmed manner, and this is usually accomplished by inclusion of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) into the stmcture (Figure 10.2). 

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Avian leukosis virus, 3 136 Aviation gasoline, 23 666 Aviation turbine fuel, from coal gasifier syngas, 6 778 Avidin, 25 800 Avidity constant, 14 137 Avionics, with fiber-optic smart structures, 22 156-157... 

Earth movement detection system, with fiber-optic smart structures, 11 158-159... 

MODULAR ARCHITECTURE, WITH FIBER-OPTIC SMART STRUCTURES... 

Multiplexing, in fiber-optic smart structure systems, 11 147... 

Oil displacement efficiency, 18 613, 614 in enhanced oil recovery, 18 628—629 Oil drilling, enzyme-based clean-up processes in, 10 306-307 Oil drilling platforms, with fiber-optic smart structures, 11 158-159... 

Smart structures are structures that incorporate at least one smart material within itself and from the effort produced by the smart material causes an action. 

The use of shape-memory alloys as actuators depends on their use in the plastic martensitic phase that has been constrained within the structural device. Shape-memory alloys (SMAs) can be divided into three functional groups one-way SMAs, tw o-vvav SMAs, and magnetically controlled SMAs. The magnetically controlled SMAs show great potential as actuator materials for smart structures because they could provide rapid strokes with large amplitudes under precise control. The most extensively used conventional shape-memory alloys are the nickel-titanium- and copper-based alloys (see Shape-Memory Alloys). 

With the inception of smart materials and structures, the world is on the brink of a new material age. Within this century the polymer age and the composite age have been experienced. These have now been followed by the smart material age. The implementation of smart materials into smart structures describes the smart material age more accurately. 

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But the day of dumb buildings is on its way out, just as is the day of dumb cars, dumb airplanes, dumb weapons, dumb satellites, and just about any other kind of dumb structure you can imagine. The day of smart structures built with smart materials has just about arrived in the developed world. Smart materials have been defined as materials that respond to environmental stimuli by making some change in their physical characteristics, such as their size, shape, electrical or magnetic conductivity, or optical properties. Because they respond to change in the surrounding environment, smart materials are also sometimes called responsive materials. 

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