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Research laboratory on the mechanics of smart materials and structures, Zhejiang University

The Research Laboratory on the Mechanics of Smart Materials and Structures (MS Laboratory) focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying the experimentally or numerically observed phenomena of smart materials and intelligent structures, so as to enrich the knowledge for the development of advanced functional devices, machines, and robots. Particular attention is paid to the multi-field coupling behaviors of a variety of high-performance materials (e.g. piezoelectric materials, multiferroic composites, quasicrystals, piezoelectric semiconductors, and dielectric elastomers) and their effects on the structural responses. Free vibration, wave propagation, and instability of structures made of these smart materials are among the most important topics in the laboratory. Although analytical methods are concentrated upon, both experimental and numerical approaches are also widely explored for the research tasks that are carried out. The ultimate aim of the laboratory is to develop new intelligent and multi-functional devices with exceptional performance to meet special or general requirements in various laboratory, industrial, and even societal applications. The emerging intelligent society needs materials and structures at a level higher than ever before to engineer more flexible, active, and automatic capabilities of machines and systems in reaction to more and more complex environments. There is thus a strong need for the mechanics of smartness.