2562

Jalili, Nader

Springer

c2010

xv, 517 p. ill. 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-504) and index. , Part I: Introduction and overview of mechanical vibrations -- Introduction -- Vibrations of lumped-parameters systems -- Variational mechanics -- A unified approach to vibrations of distributed-parameters systems -- Part II: Piezoelectric-based vibration-control systems -- An overview of active materials utilized in smart structures -- Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials -- Hysteretic characteristics of piezoelectric materials -- Piezoelectric-based systems modeling -- Vibration control using piezoelectric actuators and sensors -- Part III: Piezoelectric-based micro/nano sensors and actuators -- Piezoelectric-based micro- and aano-positioning systems -- Piezoelectric-based nanomechanical cantilever sensors -- Nanomaterials-based piezoelectric actuators and sensors -- Appendix A: mathematical preliminaries -- Appendix B: Proofs of selected theorems -- References -- Index