Design and development of shape memory alloy based E-glass resin composite structure and its applications

Abstract

From centuries conventional metals have played a significant role as structural materials. With advancement in science and technology these materials can no longer fulfil the requirements, hence a new class of multi-functional materials (Smart materials) have emerged. Smart materials incorporated with a structural material, together can be termed as SMART STRUCTURE. Smart structure’s and their control is the field of scientific endeavor, which includes the study of material science and various engineering fields like controllers, actuators, and sensors. This study in-turn helps to understand and generate the fundamental principles of material actuation and its coherence with sensors and controllers. SMA based composite structure is sort of smart structures where the thermo-mechanical behaviour of SMAs are used for actuation and elastic rigidity of E-glass composite structure used for retentation to its initial position....