Artificial Intelligence, Digital Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies

Smart Materials and Structures: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies is a comprehensive guide to the technologies that are transforming engineering from passive design to intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous systems. Integrating materials science, mechanics, electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Engineering, and Multiphysics simulation, this book provides a unified framework for understanding, designing, and commercializing the next generation of smart products and infrastructure.

Covering the complete spectrum of smart materials—including piezoelectric, shape memory, magnetostrictive, electroactive polymers, smart fluids, nanomaterials, and metamaterials—the book explains their fundamental principles, sensing and actuation mechanisms, design methodologies, and real-world engineering applications. Readers are introduced to modern concepts such as Digital Twins, Edge AI, intelligent sensing, autonomous control, predictive maintenance, and AI-enabled engineering, demonstrating how these technologies are reshaping industries ranging from healthcare and energy to aerospace, manufacturing, transportation, and civil infrastructure.

A distinctive feature of the book is its collection of multidisciplinary engineering case studies, developed using Digital Engineering and Multiphysics simulation. These examples illustrate the complete innovation cycle—from concept generation and computational modeling to design optimization, validation, and commercialization—empowering readers to develop their own intelligent engineering solutions.

Designed for senior undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, practicing engineers, product developers, and technology innovators, this book bridges the gap between scientific theory and engineering practice. It equips readers with the knowledge, tools, and innovation mindset required to create safer, smarter, healthier, and more sustainable technologies, inspiring the next generation of engineers to design, develop, and build the intelligent systems that will define the future.