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Introduction to smart materials, piezo, pyro and ferro electric effects; hysteresis effects: electric field in solids: fundamentals of continuum mechanics; basic conservation laws; thermodynamic principles; constitutive modeling for smart materials; electro thermoelastic formulation and analysis of smart structures; control of smart structures; applications to aerospace vehicles. 

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