session 9

Title

Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures

Description

The focus of the session will be on application of smart materials to spacecraft and launch vehicle systems, novel sensor and actuator concepts and new concepts for multi-functional and intelligent structural systems. Also included in the session will be new control methods for vibration suppression and shape control using adaptive structures as well as comparisons of predicted performance with data from ground and in-orbit testing.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Prof. Pavel Trivailo, RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Australia;

• Co-Chair: Dr. Hiroshi Furuya, Japan;

• Rapporteur: Prof. Paolo Gaudenzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Élcio Jeronimo de Oliveira, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Brazil;