Symposium: Advances in smart materials and adaptive structures (Porto)

Call for papers (abstract dealine: 28 Feb, 2009): 

"Advances in smart materials and adaptive structures" symposium to be held at the third international conference on integrity, reliability and failure, IRF2009

July 20-24, 2009 Porto, Portugal  

Sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 

Please submit abstract by email to Aarash Sofla: sofla (at) mie.utoronto.ca

Instructions at:

http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/conference/SMART2009/  

Topics:  

·  Developing adaptive/morphing structures

·  Optimization of adaptive structures

·  Modeling of smart materials

·  Fatigue, failure and degradation of smart structures

·  Structural health monitoring/NDE

·  Reliability of adaptive structures

·  Biomedical applications of smart materials

·  Energy harvesting  

Extended versions of all papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design (Springer).  

Question:  sofla (at) mie.utoronto.ca