부산대학교 도서관

The combined use of smart materials, complementing each others' characteristics and resultingin devices with optimised features, is providing new solutions in many industries. The use of ingeniouscombinations of smart materials has led to improvements in actuation speed and force, signal-to-noise ratio,sensor precision and unique capabilities such as self-sensing self-healing systems and energy autonomy. Thismay all give rise to a revival for numerous families of smart materials, for which application proposals hadalready reached a stationary situation. It may also provide the boost needed for the definitive industrialsuccess of many others. This study focuses on reviewing the proposals, preliminary studies and successcases related to combining smart materials to obtain multifunctional, improved systems. It also examines themost outstanding applications and fields for the combined use of these smart materials. We will also discussrelated study areas which warrant further research for the development of novel approaches for demandingapplications.