Smart Structures and Materials

This work was compiled with expanded and reviewed contributions from the 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, that was held from 3 to 6 June 2015 at Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. The Conference provided a comprehensive forum for discussing the current state of the art in the field as well as generating inspiration for future ideas specifically on a multidisciplinary level. 
The scope of the Conference included topics related to the following areas:
Fundamentals of smart materials and structures; Modeling/formulation and characterization of smart actuators, sensors and smart material systems; Trends and developments in diverse areas such as material science including composite materials, intelligent hydrogels, interfacial phenomena, phase boundaries and boundary layers of phase boundaries, control, micro- and nano-systems, electronics, etc. to be considered for smart systems; Comparative evaluation of different smart actuators and sensors; Analysis of structural concepts and designs in terms of their adaptability to smart technologies; Design and development of smart structures and systems; Biomimetic phenomena and their inspiration in engineering; Fabrication and testing of smart structures and systems; Applications of smart materials, structures and related technology; Smart robots; Morphing wings and smart aircrafts; Artificial muscles and biomedical applications; Smart structures in mechatronics; and Energy harvesting.

State of the art in Smart Structures and Materials

Preface.-  Active Control of the Hinge of a Flapping Wing with Electrostatic Sticking to Modify the Passive Pitching Motion, by Hugo Peters, Qi Wang, Hans Goosen and Fred van Keulen .- Robust Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization-Based Inverse Identification Of Three-Dimensional Elastic Behaviour Of Multilayer Unidirectional Fibre Composites, by Mohsen Hamdi, Ayech Benjeddou.- Role of structural nonlinearity in enhancing the performance of vibration energy harvesting based on electret materials, by Eugenio G.M. Brusa, Mircea Gh. Munteanu.- Nanoscale Future Actuators based on Carbon Nanotube Architectures, by  Sebastian Geier, Thorsten Mahrholz, Peter Wierach, Michael Sinapius.- Towards the Industrial Application of Morphing Aircraft Wings - Development of the Actuation Kinematics of a Droop Nose, by  Stefan Storm , Johannes Kirn.- Numerical analysis of fracture of pre-stressed ferroelectric actuator taking into account cohesive zone for damage accumulation, by SergiiKozinov and Meinhard Kuna.- Adaptive Inductor for Vibration Damping in Presence of Uncertainty, by  Bilal Mokrani, Ioan Burda, André Preumont.- Control System Design for a Morphing Wing Trailing Edge, by Ignazio Dimino1a, Monica Ciminelloa, Antonio Concilioa,Andrè Gratiasb, Martin Schuellerb, Rosario Pecorac.- Efficient Experimental Validation of Stochastic Sensitivity Analyses of Smart Systems, by Steffen Ochs, Sushan Li, Christian Adams, Tobias Melz.-Design of Control Concepts for a Smart Beam Structure with Regard to Sensitivity Analysis of the System by Sushan Li, Steffen Ochs, Elena Slomski, Tobias Melz.- Modelling the Constitutive Behaviour of Martensite and Austenite in Shape Memory Alloys using closed-form Analytical Continuous Equations, by Arathi Pai, Thomas Niendorf, Phillip Krooss, Isabel Koke, Ansgar Traechtler and Mirko Schaper.- Methods For Assessment Of Composite Aerospace Structures, by T. Wandowski, P. Malinowski, M. Radzienski, S. Opoka, W. Ostachowicz.- Artificial muscles design methodology applied to robotic fingers, by J. L. Ramírez, A. Rubiano, N. Jouandeau, L. Gallimard, and O. Polit.- Reliability Analysis of Variable Stiffness Composite Structures, by A.R. Sohoulia, M. Yildizb, A. Suleman.