Smart Materials and Technologies

<p>Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new<br>"smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems<br>in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse<br>but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to<br>information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.<br>Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved this<br>problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies<br>available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by<br>describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how<br>these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design<br>goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials<br>science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.</p> <p>Chapter 1: Materials in Architecture and design<br>Chapter 2: Fundamental Characterization of Materials<br>Chapter 3: Energy Phenomena and environments<br>Chapter 4: Types and Characteristics of Smart Materials<br>Chapter 5: Elements and Control Systems<br>Chapter 6: Smart Products<br>Chapter 7: Smart Components, Assemblies and Systems in Architecture<br>Chapter 8: Smart Environments<br>Chapter 9: Revisiting the Design Context<br>Bibliography<br>Glossary<br>Index</p>