By Mel Schwartz
Shrewdpermanent materials--materials and buildings that may impart information regarding their setting to an observer or tracking device--are revolutionizing fields as diversified as engineering, optics, and scientific know-how. Advances in shrewdpermanent fabrics are impacting disciplines around the clinical and technological panorama.
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Editor-in-Chief, Mel Schwartz has over 40 years of expertise with metals, ceramics, and composites, with detailed services in brazing. The holder of 5 patents, he has authored 13 books and multiple hundred technical papers and articles.
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Based on these calculations, a FGM that excels in offering thermal relaxation can be prepared by various methods. Another system-based approach to the optimization process, used by Tanaka et al. (36), consists of the following sequence of steps: (1) select the initial compositions properly; (2) carry out a preliminary analysis of nonstationary heat conduction and thermal stress; (3) examine the design (failure) criteria at each step; (4) if the design criteria are violated, calculate a quantity known as the thermal stress sensitivity increment; (5) find the optimum composition profile that satisfies the design criteria; (6) repeat the analysis of nonstationary heat conduction, and thermal stress using the optimum composition profile determined; (7) if the design criteria are violated at another step, return to step (4).
However, a Synthesis and evaluation variety of nonstructural FGMs whose compositional gradients were introduced deliberately to optimize physical properties, such as electrical, magnetic and optical properties, have been developed recently (42–50). By controlling the compositional gradient in the radial direction, a optical fiber that has a graded refractive index can be prepared (48). Such graded index materials possess unique and useful optical properties that cannot be achieved by conventional optical materials, which have a constant refractive index.