To celebrate another successful year in publishing, and another increase in annual downloads, we are delighted to present this free-to-read showcase of the most-accessed papers from Smart Materials and Structures (SMS) published in 2008.
The papers presented have been significant to our readers, their research, and developments in the field over all. As a thank you to the community for their support throughout last year, this collection will be freely available for you to read until 31 December 2009.
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| Powering MEMS portable devices—a review of non-regenerative and regenerative
power supply systems with special emphasis on piezoelectric energy harvesting
systems
K A Cook-Chennault, N Thambi and A M Sastry
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 4 (August 2008) 043001 (33pp)
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| Smart aggregates: multi-functional sensors for concrete structures—a tutorial and a
review
Gangbing Song, Haichang Gu and Yi-Lung Mo
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 3 (June 2008) 033001 (17pp)
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| Skin design studies for variable camber morphing airfoils
Farhan Gandhi and Phuriwat Anusonti-Inthra
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015025 (8pp)
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| A vibration energy harvesting device with bidirectional resonance frequency tunability
Vinod R Challa, M G Prasad, Yong Shi and Frank T Fisher
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015035 (10pp)
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| Harvesting raindrop energy: experimental study
Romain Guigon, Jean-Jacques Chaillout, Thomas Jager and Ghislain Despesse
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015039 (6pp)
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| A wireless, passive strain sensor based on the harmonic response of magnetically soft
materials
Ee Lim Tan, Brandon D Pereles, Ranyuan Shao, Justin Ong and Keat Ghee Ong
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025015 (6pp)
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| Harvesting raindrop energy: theory
Romain Guigon, Jean-Jacques Chaillout, Thomas Jager and Ghislain Despesse
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015038 (8pp)
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| A piezoelectric fibre composite based energy harvesting device for potential wearable
applications
L M Swallow, J K Luo, E Siores, I Patel and D Dodds
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025017 (7pp)
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| A microstructure for the detection of vapor-phase analytes based on orientational
transitions of liquid crystals
S S Sridharamurthy, K D Cadwell, N L Abbott and H Jiang
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 012001 (4pp)
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| Vibration energy harvesting by magnetostrictive material
Lei Wang and F G Yuan
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 4 (August 2008) 045009 (14pp)
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| Polypyrrole–polyvinylidene difluoride composite stripe and zigzag actuators for use in facial
robotics
Yonas Tadesse, Shashank Priya, C Ramannair Chenthamarakshan, Norma R de Tacconi and Krishnan Rajeshwar
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025001 (8pp)
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| Micromechanical investigation of plasticity–damage coupling of concrete reinforced by
shape memory alloy fibers
Yuval Freed and Jacob Aboudi
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015046 (14pp)
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| Magnetorheology of submicron diameter iron microwires dispersed in silicone
oil
R C Bell, J O Karli, A N Vavreck, D T Zimmerman, G T Ngatu and N M Wereley
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015028 (6pp)
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| Wireless RF communication in biomedical applications
Inke Jones, Lucas Ricciardi, Leonard Hall, Hedley Hansen, Vijay Varadan, Chris Bertram, Simon Maddocks, Stefan Enderling, David Saint, Said Al-Sarawi and Derek Abbott
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015050 (10pp)
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| Active vibration control of beams with optimal placement of piezoelectric sensor/actuator
pairs
K Ramesh Kumar and S Narayanan
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 5 (October 2008) 055008 (15pp)
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| A novel approach for the structural identification and monitoring of a full-scale 17-story
building based on ambient vibration measurements
Reza D Nayeri, Sami F Masri, Roger G Ghanem and Robert L Nigbor
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025006 (19pp)
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| A magnetorheological actuation system: test and model
Shaju John, Anirban Chaudhuri and Norman M Wereley
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025023 (15pp)
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| Fabrication and actuation of electro-active polymer actuator based on PSMI-incorporated
PVDF
Jun Lu, Sang-Gyun Kim, Sunwoo Lee and Il-Kwon Oh
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 4 (August 2008) 045002 (10pp)
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| Three-dimensional static shape control analysis of composite plates using distributed
piezoelectric actuators
M S I Shaik Dawood, L Iannucci and E S Greenhalgh
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025002 (10pp)
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| Active skin for turbulent drag reduction
Raghavendran Mani, Dimitris C Lagoudas and Othon K Rediniotis
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 3 (June 2008) 035004 (18pp)
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| Conductive polymer composites with double percolated architecture of carbon
nanoparticles and ceramic microparticles for high heat dissipation and sharp PTC
switching
G Droval, J F Feller, P Salagnac and P Glouannec
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025011 (10pp)
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| Active control of natural frequencies of FGM plates by piezoelectric sensor/actuator
pairs
R Mirzaeifar, H Bahai and S Shahab
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 4 (August 2008) 045003 (8pp)
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| Piezoelectric sensor based nondestructive active monitoring of strength gain in
concrete
Sung Woo Shin, Adeel Riaz Qureshi, Jae-Yong Lee and Chung Bang Yun
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 5 (October 2008) 055002 (8pp)
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| Adaptive learning algorithms for vibration energy harvesting
John K Ward and Sam Behrens
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 3 (June 2008) 035025 (9pp)
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| An optimized self-powered switching circuit for non-linear energy harvesting with low
voltage output
Mickaël Lallart and Daniel Guyomar
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 3 (June 2008) 035030 (8pp)
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| Issues in mathematical modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters
A Erturk and D J Inman
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 6 (December 2008) 065016 (14pp)
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| Damage detection using piezoelectric transducers and the Lamb wave approach: II. Robust
and quantitative decision making
Y Lu, X Wang, J Tang and Y Ding
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 2 (April 2008) 025034 (13pp)
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| A mixture theory framework for modeling the mechanical actuation of ionic polymer metal
composites
Giovanni Del Bufalo, Luca Placidi and Maurizio Porfiri
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 4 (August 2008) 045010 (14pp)
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| Study on the sandwich piezoelectric ceramic ultrasonic transducer in thickness vibration
Shuyu Lin and Hua Tian
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015034 (9pp)
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| Gradient anneal of functionally graded NiTi
Abdus Samad Mahmud, Yinong Liu and Tae-hyun Nam
Smart Mater. Struct. 17 No 1 (February 2008) 015031 (5pp)
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