Optimal configurations of active fiber composites based on asymptotic torsional analysis

Dineshkumar Harursampath; Ajay Kumar Tamrakar

doi:10.1117/12.694392

8 January 2007 Optimal configurations of active fiber composites based on asymptotic torsional analysis

Dineshkumar Harursampath, Ajay Kumar Tamrakar

Proceedings Volume 6414, Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems III; 641413 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.694392
Event: SPIE Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems, 2006, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

Active Fiber Composites (AFC) possess desirable characteristics over a wide range of smart structure applications, such as vibration, shape and flow control as well as structural health monitoring. This type of material, capable of collocated actuation and sensing, can be used in smart structures with self-sensing circuits. This paper proposes four novel applications of AFC structures undergoing torsion: sensors and actuators shaped as strips and tubes; and concludes with a preliminary failure analysis. To enable this, a powerful mathematical technique, the Variational Asymptotic Method (VAM) was used to perform cross-sectional analyses of thin generally anisotropic AFC beams. The resulting closed form expressions have been utilized in the applications presented herein.

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Dineshkumar Harursampath and Ajay Kumar Tamrakar "Optimal configurations of active fiber composites based on asymptotic torsional analysis", Proc. SPIE 6414, Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems III, 641413 (8 January 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.694392

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