Smart Materials and Structures

期刊简介：Smart Materials and Structures (SMS) is a multi-disciplinary engineering journal that explores the creation and utilization of novel forms of transduction. It is a leading journal in the area of smart materials and structures, publishing the most important results from different regions of the world, largely from Asia, Europe and North America. The results may be as disparate as the development of new materials and active composite systems, derived using theoretical predictions to complex structural systems, which generate new capabilities by incorporating enabling new smart material transducers. The theoretical predictions are usually accompanied with experimental verification, characterizing the performance of new structures and devices. These systems are examined from the nanoscale to the macroscopic. SMS has a Board of Associate Editors who are specialists in a multitude of areas, ensuring that reviews are fast, fair and performed by experts in all sub-disciplines of smart materials, systems and structures.A smart material is defined as any material that is capable of being controlled such that its response and properties change under a stimulus. A smart structure or system is capable of reacting to stimuli or the environment in a prescribed manner. SMS is committed to understanding, expanding and dissemination of knowledge in this subject matter.

【译文】智能材料和结构（SMS）是一本多学科工程期刊，探讨新型转换形式的创造和应用。它是智能材料和结构领域的领先期刊，发布来自世界各地的重要成果，主要来自亚洲、欧洲和北美。这些成果可能包括新材料的开发、主动复合材料系统，以及利用理论预测得到的复杂结构系统，通过结合新的智能材料转换器来产生新的能力。这些理论预测通常伴随着实验验证，以表征新结构和设备的性能。这些系统从纳米尺度到宏观尺度都被研究。SMS拥有一批副编辑委员会，他们是众多领域的专家，确保审稿快速、公平，并由所有智能材料、系统和结构子学科的专家进行。智能材料被定义为任何能够在刺激下被控制，其响应和性质发生变化的材料。智能结构或系统能够以规定的方式对刺激或环境做出反应。SMS致力于理解、扩展和传播这一主题领域的知识。