GUEST EDITORIAL SEPTEMBER 2009
9/1/2009 Authors: Frecker, M, Johnson, N.Volume: 131(9) – September, 2009 We are very pleased to introduce this special issue on the Design of Smart Structures and Systems. The call for papers was issued at the 2008 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems, as part of the Enabling Technologies and Integrated System Design symposium. […]
SMART DESIGNS
9/1/2009 Design of artifacts is following a natural evolution from being purely static to being “smart,” namely, fully adaptive to a changing operating environment. Although control design is an important element in smart product design, a controller can only perform as well as the design of the artifact—its configuration, structure and materials—will allow. JMD is a […]
