Download or read book Smart Materials for Ranging Systems written by Jaap Franse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the different aspects of materials with specific magnetic, electric and elastic properties. They are considered in view of potential application in the design and manufacturing of smart materials. Modern smart materials play a key role at investigations in interdisciplinary materials sciences and are serving to forge new links between basic and applied research. Progress is reported in the fabrication and understanding of in-situ formation and characterization of solid state structures with specified properties.