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