B. Dattaguru & Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan 
IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the the IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems, Bangalore, India, December 10-12, 2008

New Materials A: Functionally Graded Materials & Shape Memory Alloys.- Functionally Graded Shells with Distributed Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators for Active Vibration Control.- A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Foams.- Nonlinear Stability of Functionally Graded Plates Subjected to Aero-thermo-mechanical Loads.- A Generalized Three Species Model for Shape Memory Alloys.- Use of SMA Constitutive Model in Finite Element Analysis of Wire-Based Actuators.- Time Dependent Deformations in Concrete: A Multi-scale Approach.- Higher Order Theories of Functionally Graded Beams and Plates.- New Materials B: Nano Materials and Composites.- A Strain Sensor from a Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite.- A Hysteresis Compensator Based on a Modified Dynamic Preisach Model for Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites.- Multi-Axial Behavior of Ferroelectrics with Two Types of Micro–Macro Mechanical Models.- Active Single Walled Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Composites.- Modeling of Fibre Formation and Oxygen Permeability in Micro-fibrillar Polymer-Polymer Composites.- Multifunctional Material Systems.- Multiscale Computational Analysis of Biomechanical Systems.- Effect of Magnetic-Field on Stress–Strain Behavior of Magneto-Sensitive Elastomers.- Effects of Functionalization on the Morphology, Cure Kinetics and Mechanical Behavior of Thermosetting Polymers.- A Study on Polarization-Electric Field Nonlinearity in Smart Composite Structures.- Multifunctional Components in Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor: Design and Development.- Smart Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring.- From Structural Mechanics to Inspection Processes: Getting Structural Health Monitoring into Application for Riveted Metallic Structures.- Shaped Modal Sensors for Uncertain Dynamical Systems.- Sensor Failure Detection Using Interaction Matrix Formulation.- Resonant MEMS Sensors.- Applications.- Compressive Behavior of Fibre Reinforced Honeycomb Cores.- Strain-Space Solution for the Elasto-plastic Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joint.- Design and Development of a Smart Composite T-Tail for Transport Aircraft.- Manufacturing of Multi-functional Composites.- Computational Methods- I.- Iso-Spectral Rotating and Non-Rotating Beams.- Innovative Energy Absorbing Composite Tubes Incorporating Extension-Torsion Coupling, Stitch Ripping, and Foam Crushing.- A Pseudo-dynamical Systems Approach to Inverse Problems.- Force Reconstruction for Wave Based Damage Detection.- On Numerical Integration of Discontinuous Approximations in Partition of Unity Finite Elements.- Computational Methods II.- Approximate Evaluations of the Modal Effective Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient.- Distributed Point Source Model for Wave Propagation Through Multi-phase Systems.- Intrinsic Localized Modes in Micro-scale Oscillator Arrays Subjected to Deterministic Excitation and White Noise.- A Theoretical and Computational Framework for Modeling Diffusion-Driven Boundary Motion Without Remeshing.- Multiscale Simulation of Metal/Ceramic Interface Fracture.