Bionic Inspired Structures Based on Smart Materials

Creating systems with low complexity but high functionality

Welf-Guntram Drossel, Holger Kunze, Martin Ettrichrätz
JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 34, 2018, Edition 4, Pages 15-18
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M_18-4_15-18
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Abstract

Functional materials, so called smart materials, have the ability to adapt to external environmental conditions i.e. they are able to change their properties through external physical stimuli so that, they are optimally adapted to their surroundings. These processes are accompanied by energy conversion processes. These properties predestine smart materials to act as sensors and actuators. They enable high functionality in simplified structures, already on the material level. Therewith, a new and better quality can be achieved in product design.

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