Ebook: Smart Material Systems: Model Development (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics)

"The text can be used as the basis for a graduate course in any of several disciplines that are concerned with smart material modeling, including physics, materials science, electromechanical design, control systems, and applied mathematics...[T]his well-written and rigorous text will be useful for anyone interested in specific smart materials as well as general modeling and control of smart-material behavior...The two overriding characteristics of the text are its completeness in such a vast area and the success of the homogenized energy modeling framework. Indeed, anyone doing research in the area of smart material systems modeling, design, or development should have a copy of this text." -- R. B. Gorbet, University of Waterloo, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, December 2006, Vol. 26, No. 6