MECH493 INTRODUCTION TO SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS
| Course Code: | 3650493 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
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Main objective of this course is to teach students to model different types of smart materials and to design simple smart structures.
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The students will learn smart structures containing smart material-based sensors, actuators to perform functions like monitoring the health and/or performance the structure, and changing the shape or mechanical properties of the structure.
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Students will be able to apply the techniques learned in this class to produce solutions to industrial problems using smart structures and materials.
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The course will also help to build the necessary foundation for the students to conduct research in the areas of smart materials and smart structures.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn how to model electro-mechanical behavior of piezoelectric materials.
- Students will learn physical mechanism that causes piezoelectric material behavior.
- Students will learn shape memory alloy based actuators.
- Students will be familiar with practical smart structures with shape memory alloy components.
- Students will learn how to model simple structures with integrated piezoelectric sensors and actuators.
- Students will learn electromechanical coupling efficiency of smart structures as performance indicator.
- Students will learn piezoelectric d15 shear actuation mechanism.
- Students will learn piezoelectric d36 in-plane shear actuation mechanism.
- Students will learn piezoelectric direct torsion actuation mechanisms using piezoelectric d15 shear-mode piezoceramics and d36 shear-mode single crystals