Mini Symposium Details

17: Smart and Active Materials: Experiments, Modelling, and Simulation

• Mokarram Hossain, Swansea University, United Kingdom
• Krishnendu Haldar, LMS, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

This Mini-Symposium will particularly focus on the experimental characterization, modelling, and simulation of coupled-field material behavior under electric and magnetic excitations. Such field-responsive functional materials can be used for actuation and sensing in smart and active materials. These fast growing smart materials include magneto-rheological elastomers, electro-active polymers, ferroelectrics, dielectric elastomer composites, and multi-ferroic composite materials. Experimental, numerical and theoretical methods that will be covered by the Mini-Symposium are advanced constitutive modelling, micro- and nano-characterization, phase field modelling, multi-scale and multi-physics material models, finite element implementations. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together researchers from the materials science, mechanics, and physics communities with common interests in coupled material properties and multi-functional materials. Hence, this will offer a platform for the presentation and discussion of advanced experimental methods, modelling and simulation techniques for multi-field-coupled phenomena.