Conference Topics

SMART2015 is organized in General Topics and Minisymposiums.

When submitting an abstract you should select either a General Topic or a Minisymposium.

General Topics

  • Fundamentals of smart materials and structures
  • Modeling/formulation and characterization of smart actuators, sensors and smart material systems
  • Design and development of smart structures and systems
  • Fabrication and testing of smart structures and systems
  • Application of smart materials, structures and related technology
  • Smart structures in mechatronics
  • Morphing wings and smart aircraft
  • Biomimetic phenomena and their inspiration in engineering
  • Biomedical applications
  • Energy harvesting
  • Materials aspects

 

Minisymposiums

MS01 - Monitoring and Control of Civil Structures

Álvaro Cunha & Carlos Moutinho, University of Porto, FEUP, Portugal

In last years there has been a significant increase of Civil Structures equipped with dynamic monitoring and control systems. This is due to recent technologic advances associated to the interest of the scientific and technical community in observing and mitigating vibrations induced by different types of dynamic loads (e.g. earthquakes, wind, railway, roadway or pedestrian traffic, etc), as well as of developing efficient tools for vibration based Structural Health Monitoring, using methods from system identification and operational modal analysis. In this context, this mini-symposium will be a forum of discussion where some of the most recent works and developments in this area will be presented.


MS02 - Novel Methods in SHM Technology

Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, IFFM Gdansk, Poland

The scope of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) includes constant monitoring of the structure's material condition (in real – time), for the elements of the structure as well as for the whole structure during its useful lifetime. SHM is a multidisciplinary technology devoted to development and implementation of methods and systems that realize inspection and damage detection by integration with structures.
The Minisymposium covers the main SHM disciplines which are based on topics such as piezoelectric transducers, elastic waves propagation phenomenon, fibre Bragg gratings, structural vibrations analysis, phased array techniques, electro–mechanical impedance method, acoustic emission, damage mechanics and 3D laser vibrometry applications.
Among various techniques available the Minisymposium is dedicated to selected numerical simulations and experimental validations of considered structures. Also the Minisymposium covers topics on dispersion, mode conversion, thermo–mechanical processes and wave scattering in considered structures. It also includes a variety of techniques being related to diagnostics (damage size estimation and damage type recognition) and prognostics.
The Minisymposium also is dedicated to various applications in some branches of industry, i.e. for wind turbines, offshore engineering, aerospace and aeronautics, civil engineering structures and others.

MS04 - Piezoelectric Sensors, Actuators & Transducers for Structural Control and Health Monitoring

Ayech Benjeddou, Supméca, France
Michael Krommer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Piezoelectrics are good smart materials candidates for integrating sensing, actuation and transduction multi-functionalities into different structures (aeronautic, aerospace, marine, automotive, railway, civil, mechanical …) for their structural control & health monitoring so that they become smart structures.
This mini-symposium aims to gather researchers active in this field in order to provide a picture of the latest scientific and technological innovations in the following indicative only-list of topics:
• Piezoelectric sensors
• Piezoelectric actuators
• Piezoelectric transducers
• Piezoelectric composite materials & structures
• Piezoelectric functionally graded materials & structures
• Direct characterization of piezoelectric materials properties
• Inverse Identification of effective piezoelectric materials properties
• Piezoelectric nonlinearities modelling, simulation and control
• Piezoelectric models reductions for structural control
• Piezoelectric passive, active and hybrid vibration damping
• Piezoelectric active structural vibration control
• Piezoelectric active structural shape control
• Piezoelectric active structural acoustic control
• Piezoelectric active structural health monitoring
• Piezoelectric structural morphing
• Piezoelectric structures multi-objective & robust designs
• Piezoelectric structures multi-scale modelling & simulation
• Piezoelectric structures design, optimization, control & monitoring
• Piezoelectric structures experimental benchmarking & concepts validations