TY - JOUR
T1 - When nothing is constant but change
T2 - Adaptive and sensorial materials and their impact on product design
AU - Lehmhus, Dirk
AU - Brugger, Jürgen
AU - Muralt, Paul
AU - Pané, Salvador
AU - Ergeneman, Olgaç
AU - Dubois, Marc Alexandre
AU - Gupta, Nikhil
AU - Busse, Matthias
N1 - Funding Information:
Part of this work was supported by the University and Federal State of Bremen within the APF-Schwerpunktprojekt Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering (ISIS) (grant number 007056).
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - This article is the preface to the Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures on occasion of the Symposium A53 'MEMS/NEMS for Sensorial and Actorial Materials' held at the Euromat 2011 Conference, Montpellier, France, September 12-15, 2011. The authors outline the concept of material-integrated sensing and intelligence, which is summarized in the term sensorial materials. Such materials are understood to incorporate sensing, signal and data processing as well as communication facilities to autonomously evaluate their own condition and/or their environment. To achieve these capabilities, bottom-up as well as top-down approaches are currently being discussed. The latter is highlighted in this work. Research efforts towards it range from materials science to sensor and microelectromechanical system (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) technology, microelectronics and computer science and were covered in the underlying Euromat symposium. As a specific aspect linked to the envisaged autonomy and a resulting adaptivity, for example, of internal self-representation and data interpretation, potential consequences for engineering design are sketched.
AB - This article is the preface to the Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures on occasion of the Symposium A53 'MEMS/NEMS for Sensorial and Actorial Materials' held at the Euromat 2011 Conference, Montpellier, France, September 12-15, 2011. The authors outline the concept of material-integrated sensing and intelligence, which is summarized in the term sensorial materials. Such materials are understood to incorporate sensing, signal and data processing as well as communication facilities to autonomously evaluate their own condition and/or their environment. To achieve these capabilities, bottom-up as well as top-down approaches are currently being discussed. The latter is highlighted in this work. Research efforts towards it range from materials science to sensor and microelectromechanical system (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) technology, microelectronics and computer science and were covered in the underlying Euromat symposium. As a specific aspect linked to the envisaged autonomy and a resulting adaptivity, for example, of internal self-representation and data interpretation, potential consequences for engineering design are sketched.
KW - Material-integrated sensing
KW - autonomic structures
KW - embedded intelligence
KW - energy harvesting
KW - material-integrated intelligent systems
KW - sensor
KW - structural health monitoring
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U2 - 10.1177/1045389X13502855
DO - 10.1177/1045389X13502855
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84888169615
SN - 1045-389X
VL - 24
SP - 2172
EP - 2182
JO - Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
JF - Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
IS - 18
ER -