Research Topics

Posted on October 15, 2014

Sensor Development

  1. Sensors for structural health monitoring
  2. Sensors for biomedical research
  3. Sensors for oil exploration
  4. General purpose sensors based on active materials

Structural Controls: Passive, Semi-active and Active

  1. Control system design for structural control
  2. Devices design for structural controls

Piezoceramic Materials

  1. Control of piezoceramic actuators
  2. Develop piezoceramic based sensors

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs)

  1. Precision control of SMAs with hysteresis compensation
  2. Innovative aerospace devices with SMA actuators
  3. Innovative SMA enabled devices for oil exploration
  4. SMA Damping devices
  5. Modeling of structures with SMAs
  6. Actuation of SMA using Modulation Techniques
  7. Control of an SMA actuator

Magneto-Rheological Fluids

  1. Vibration damping of stay cables
  2. Magnetorheological fluid damper/lock

Fiber-Optical Sensors

  1. Fiber Bragg grating based sensors
  2. Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometer (EFBI) based sensors

Control Theories, Intelligent Controls, and their Applications

  1. Sliding-mode based nonlinear controls
  2. Hysteresis modeling and compensation
  3. Fuzzy logic based controls
  4. Neural network based controls
  5. Fault Identification and Fault Tolerant Control

Structural Health Monitoring

  1. Active-sensing based structural heath monitoring
  2. Structural health monitoring using fiber optical sensors

Teaching Equipment or Demonstration Development

  1. Smart Vibration Platform Experiment
  2. Smart Flexible Beam Experiment
  3. MR Fluid Demonstration
  4. Shape Memory Alloy Demonstration
  5. Vibration Control of Vortex-induced Vibration

Contact

Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory (SMSL)
Gangbing Song, Ph.D.
gsong [at] uh.edu