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Course Description:
MEE 555 Smart Materials
This course presents a general coverage of all existing smart/active materials and biomaterials, their characteristics, properties, functions, modeling and simulations and engineering, scientific and medical applications
Pre-requisite : Graduate standing in science and/or engineering
Credit: 3
Contents:
Piezoelectric and piezoresistive materials such as piezoceramics and piezo polymers (ceramics, polymeric, etc.), Electrostrictive materials, Magnetostrictive materials,, Magneto-rheological fluids (MRFs), Electro-rheological fluids (ERFs), Electroactive polymers, (EAPs), Ioic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs), and ionic polymermetal nanocomposites (IPMNCs), Conductive Polymers, Ferroelectric relaxors, Dielectric elastomers, Artificial muscles and biomaterials, Non-ionic gels, Chemomechanical polymers and contractile muscles, Liquid crystal elastomers, Shape memory Alloys and Shape memory polymers, biomaterials, molecular engines, biogenic and bio-inspired intelligent materials.
Grading:
First exam, 4-5 weeks, carries 25% of the final grade
Second exam 8-9 weeks, carries 25% of the final grade
Final exam carries 25% of the final grade
Semester project: carries 15% of the final grade
Homeworks carry 10% Of the final grade
Class Times: to be announced
Office hours: to be announced
Webpage: to be announced
Instructor: Prof.
Mohsen Shahinpoor, 219A Boardman Hall, 581-2143
Office Hours: TTH 11:00AM-12:00 Noon
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing/Consent of Instructor
Text: M. Shahinpoor and Hans-Jörg Schneider, Editors, “ Intelligent Materials”, foreworded by: Nobel Laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Liquid Crystal Polymers and Elastomers), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishers, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road Cambridge CB4 0WF, Great Britain,1 st . edition, (2008)
Technical software: MATLAB Student Version Release 14 (includes Matlab v.7 and Simulink). SolidWorks solid modeling package.
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