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Smart Structures

Physical Behaviour, Mathematical Modelling and Applications

By: Paolo Gaudenzi

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Smart Structures

Physical Behaviour, Mathematical Modelling and Applications

By: Paolo Gaudenzi

Synthesizing knowledge acquired as a result of significant research and development over recent years, Smart Structures clearly illustrates why these structures are of such intense current interest. Gaudenzi offers valuable insight into both how they behave and how and at what cost they could be designed and produced for real life applications in cutting edge fields such as vibration control, shape morphing, structural health monitoring and energy transduction. Smart Structures offers a basic and fundamental description of smart structures from the physical, mathematical and engineering viewpoint. It explains the basic physics relating to the behaviour of active materials, gives the mathematical background behind the phenomena, and provides tools for numerical simulation. It also offers an insight into considerations related to the manufacturing, assembly and integration of smart structures. Smart Structures is divided into 5 sections: in the first part a definition of smart structures is proposed, the motivation for developing a smart structure presented and the basic physics of active materials such aspiezoelectrics, electrostrictives, magnetostrictives and shape memory alloys briefly recalled. A second part is devoted to the mathematical modelling of piezoelectric bodies. The third part discusses actuation and sensing mechanisms based on which the active part of a smart structure will produce “results” on the passive one. The fourth part deals with active composites at the micromechanical and macromechanical level, and the fifth part is devoted to applications of smart structures with examples taken from the aerospace field. This introduction to smart structures will be useful both for structural and mechanical designers, and for students and researchers at graduate level or beyond. The diverse industries involved in this rapidly evolving field include aerospace, automotive and bioengineering.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470682434

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Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

By: Hassan Elahi,Marco Eugeni,Paolo Gaudenzi

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Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

By: Hassan Elahi,Marco Eugeni,Paolo Gaudenzi

Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting explains the design and implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on fluid-structure interaction. There is currently an increase in demand for low power electronic instruments in a range of settings, and recent advances have driven their energy consumption downwards. As a result, the possibility to extract energy from an operational environment is of growing significance to industry and academic research globally. This book solves problems related to the integration of smart structures with the aeroelastic system, addresses the importance of the aerodynamic model on accurate prediction of the performance of the energy harvester, describes the overall effect of the piezoelectric patch on the dynamics of the system, and explains different mechanisms for harvesting energy via fluid-structure interaction. This wealth of innovative technical information is supported by introductory chapters on piezoelectric materials, energy harvesting and circuits, and fluid structure interaction, opening this interdisciplinary topic up for readers with a range of backgrounds. - Provides new designs of piezoelectric energy harvesters for fluid-structure interaction - Explains how to correctly model aerodynamics for effective aeroelastic energy harvesting - Numerical examples allow the reader to practice the design, modeling and implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices

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Elsevier

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0128241772

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9780128241776

Image-Making-India

Visual Culture, Technology, Politics

By: Paolo Silvio Harald Favero

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Image-Making-India

Visual Culture, Technology, Politics

By: Paolo Silvio Harald Favero

Image-Making-India explores the evolving meaning of images in a digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India. Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences in documentary and fiction film, photography, contemporary art and digital curation that have in common a desire to engage with images as tools for social intervention. These experiences reveal images’ capacity not only to narrate and represent but also to perform, do and affect. Particular attention is devoted to the 'digital', a critical landscape that offers an opportunity to re-examine the significance of images and visual culture in a rapidly changing India. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of visual and digital anthropology and cultures as well as South Asian studies.

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Routledge

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1000185214

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9781000185218

The Present Image

Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat

By: Paolo S. H. Favero

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The Present Image

Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat

By: Paolo S. H. Favero

The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and art-history, and based on the author’s practice-based involvement with images, the book argues against the idea of the digital as a revolution in the world of images. “Present images” are the result of a dialectic between the material and the immaterial, the manual and the mechanical, the visible and the audible, the old and the new. Offering an analysis containing simultaneously elements of timeliness and timelessness, the book addressed practices such as VR and 360 degrees, iDocs and action cameras in a dialogue with classical art, religious iconography, early photography and contemporary art. In the final chapter the book explores the significance of images and image-making in the context of dying, mourning and living.

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Springer

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3319694995

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9783319694993

Smart Structures

Physical Behaviour, Mathematical Modelling and Applications

By: Paolo Gaudenzi

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Physical Behaviour, Mathematical Modelling and Applications

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Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

By: Hassan Elahi,Marco Eugeni,Paolo Gaudenzi

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Smart Structures

Smart Structures

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Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

Image-Making-India

Image-Making-India

The Present Image

The Present Image

Smart Structures

Smart Structures

Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

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