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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Please note that the program will be preliminary until the last day before the conference and changes can still occur. 

All attendees and spouses are invited for the welcome reception in the lounge of the Mercure hotel on Sunday October 5th at 5PM.

 

Program: Monday October 6th 2014

 

Lecture Room

 

08.40

Opening of the Conference

 

Session 1: Morphing
Chairs: Prof. Michael Friswell & Prof. Kon-Well Wang

 

09.00 

Performance based MDO of a morphing Joined-Wing aircraft concept

José Vale, Frederico Afonso, Fernando Lau and, Afzal Suleman

 

09.20

Kinematic Solution for a highly adaptive Droop Nose

Johannes Kirn and Stefan Storm

 

09.40

Optimization of an Elastomeric Composite Skin for a span-morphing aircraft wing

Alexander D. Shaw, Ben K. S. Woods, Edward A. Bubert and Michael I. Friswell

 

10.00

Metastructure development harnessing modular metastability

R.L. Harne and K.W. Wang

 

10.20

Design, Manufacturing and Wind Tunnel Validation of an Active Camber Morphing Wing Based on Compliant Structures

Alessandro De Gaspari, Sergio Ricci and Luca Riccobene

 

10.40

Break

 

Session 2: SHM & Sensing
Chairs: Prof. Dimitris Saravanos &  Dr. Marcias Martinez

 

11.00

Nonlinear Acoustics for Crack Detection in Aluminium Plates – Wireless and Mobile Platform Based on a Smartphone

T. Oraczewski, W.J. Staszewski* and T. Uhl

 

11.20

Evaluation of Physical Performance of Embedded Piezopolymer Sensor Systems

Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis and Eugenio Gutiérrez

 

11.40

Multi-damage monitoring for large-scale stiffened panel based on propagating characteristics of Lamb waves

Shengbo Shan, Jinhao Qiu, Chao Zhang and Hongli Ji

 

12.00

Wireless health monitoring procedures for lattice towers

Davide Nardi , Michele Pasquali, Sofiane Atek and Paolo Gaudenzi

 

12.20

Kirigami pyramidal auxetic active core for wave propagation control

Manuel Collet, Morvan Ouisse, Fabrizio Scarpa and Mohammed Ichchou

 

12.40

Dynamic Characterization of Air Flow Sensitive Fuzzy Fiber Artificial Hair Sensors

Benjamin T. Dickinson, Jesse Diaz, Benjamin Severin, Greg Reich, David Phillips, Henry Sodano, Keith Slinker and Jeff Baur

 

13.00

Lunch

 

Session 3: Applications
Chairs: Dr. Razvann Rusovici & Prof. Haim Abramovich

 

14.00

Natural frequency identification of smart washer by using adaptive observer with time-varying adaptive gains

Hitoshi Ito and Masayuki Okugawaz

 

14.20

Design Optimization of a Rotary Magnetorheological Brake

Hao Ma and Wei-Hsin Liao

 

14.40

Experimental verification of the position and attitude control low between two objects using multiple coils

Ayako Torisaka, Syo Masuda, Satoru Ozawa, Nobuyuki Kobayashi and Hiroshi Yamakawa

 

15.00

High Shear Rate Magnetorheological Devices to Absorb Impact, Shock and Blast Energy

Norman M. Wereley, Andrew Becnel, Wei Hu and Gregory J. Hiemenz

 

15.20

Investigations on the use of Lamb waves for de-icing purposes

S. Ameduri and A.Brindisi

 

15.40

Break

 

16.00

Keynote Lecture by Paolo Ermanni

 

Session 4: Energy Harvest
Chair: Prof. George Lesieutre

 

16.30

Synchronized Triple Bias-Flips Harvesting Circuit: A New Solution for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Enhancement

Junrui Liang

 

16.50

Development of a nonlinear multimodal energy Harvester with magnetic coupling

Hongyan Wang, Louise Wan, Kirsten Ly and Lihua Tang

 

17.10

Exploiting piezoelectric effect for magnetic sensing and energy harvesting

B. Guiffard, R. Seveno, D. Guyomar, J.W. Zhang, R. Belouadah and M. Lallart

 

17.30

Fabrication of micro multilayer energy harvesters based on stainless-steel substrates

Y. J. Wang, S.C. Lin and W. J. Wu

 

18.00

Poster Session

 

19.30

End Poster Session

 

Program: Tuesday October 7th 2014

 

Lecture Room

 

Session 5: Actuation 
Chair: Prof. Jinhao Qiu

 

08.40

A novel bio-inspired fluidic actuator for robotic applications

Stefan Landkammer, Rainer Valek and Rüdige Hornfeck

 

09.00

Development of a prototype of a smart reconfigurable reflector for extremely high frequency antenna

Hiroaki Tanaka, Hiraku Sakamoto, Akiya Inagaki, Kosei Ishimura, Akihiro Doi, Yusuke Kono, Tomoaki Oyama, Kazuki Watanabe, Yu Oikawa and Takeshi Kuratomi

 

09.20

Variable Recruitment Inelastic Bladder Hydraulic Artificial Muscles for High Efficiency Robotics

Michael Meller, Jordan Chipka and  Ephrahim Garcia

 

09.40

The Smart Spring: How it works

Fred Nitzsche

 

10.00

Design studies using pneumatic artificial muscles in cellular structures for modulus variation

Michael E. Pontecorvo1, Farhan S. Gandhi and Felix Foerster

 

10.20

Minimum Energy Cross-Well Actuation of Bistable Piezocomposite Unsymmetric Cross-Ply Plates

Onur Bilgen, Mehmet R. Simsek and Andres F. Arrieta

 

10.40

Break

 

Session 6: Applications 
Chairs: Prof. Rinze Benedictus & Prof. Wei-Hsin Liao

 

11.00

Testing and Validation of Piezo-Actuated Inlet Guide-Vane

Razvan Rusovici, Paavo Sepri,Chelakara Subramanian and Jordan Senatore

 

11.20

Design of an autonomous flap for load alleviation

Lars O. Bernhammer, Roeland De Breuker and Moti Karpel

 

11.40

Identification of Aeroelastic Parameters for Helicopter Tail Rotor Limit Cycle Oscillation Monitoring

Yong Chen, Viresh Wickramasinghe and David Zimcik

 

12.00

Boat trip with lunch to TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

 

Lecture Room B

Lecture Room D

 

Session 7: Vibration
Chairs: Prof. Paolo Gaudenzi & 
Dr. Eric Chen

Session 8: SMA
Chair: Prof. Dimitris Lagoudas

 

14.20

Active vibration control systems with improved sound radiation properties

Thomas Haase, Christian Schubert and Hans Peter Monner

Adaptive Structural Shape Re_nement by Means of SMA Wire

Kazuyuki Hanahara and Yukio Tada

 

14.40

Electrical tuned vibration absorber: application of the equal-peak method to linear and non-linear RL piezoelectric shunts

Gilles Tondreau, Arnaud Deraemaeker, Payam Soltani and Gaëtan Kerschen

Macroscopic characterization and phenomenological modeling of thermally-responsive shape memory polymers

R. Kazakevičiūtė-Makovska, M. Heuchel, K. Kratz andH. Steeb

 

15.00

Damping cable structures with active tendons

A.Preumont, D. Alaluf and C.Gentile

Design and Simulation o Morphing Airfoil Sections with SMA Actuators for Wind Turbine Rotors

A.Karakalas, T. Machairas, A. Solomo, V. Riziotis V. and D. Saravanos

 

15.002

Robustness of Multiple Piezoelectric Vibration Absorbers

Yohsuke Nambu, Toshihide Takashima, Akiya Inagaki and Masakatsu Chiba

Magnetocaloric properties in various martensitic structures in Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys

Rafał Wróblewski, Marcin Leonowicz, Eric Rhoads and Peter Müllner

 

15.40

Concurrent Design of Adaptively Damped Structures

Tommaso Delpero, Andre Bergamini and Paolo Ermann

Characterization of spark plasma sintered Ti-Ta-Zr-Ru shape memory alloys

M.L. Lethabane and P. A. Olubambi

 

16.00

Break

 

 

Session 9: Materials

Chairs: Prof. Pim Groen & Prof. Daniel Inman

Session 10: Morphing

Chairs: Dr. Roeland De Breuker & Prof. Michael Friswell

 

16.20

Improved Piezoelectricity of PVDF Nanocomposites

Ning Hu, Liangke Wu, Huiming Ning and Yaolu Liu

Warp-controlled variable twist and camber morphing mechanism

N.P.M. Werter, J. Sodja, R. De Breuker, B. Senkal and G. Spirlet

 

16.40

Electromechanical Characteristics of Microstructure with Etching Holes

Wan-Chun Chuang and Wei Hsiang Tu

Aerodynamic Performance of a Spanwise Morphing Trailing Edge Concept

Alexander M. Pankonien and Daniel J. Inman

 

17.00

Two-material Topology Optimization of a Contact-aided Compliant Cell for Thermal Control

Pierre F. Thurier, George A. Lesieutre, Mary I. Frecker and James H. Adair

A morphing mechanical and electromagnetic antenna reflector concept based on curved corrugated structures

R. Painter, C. Remillat, F. Scarpa, G. Hilton and I. Farrow

 

17.20

Additive Manufacturing of Active Struts for Piezoelectric Shunt Damping

Dirk Maye, Hanns A. Stoffregen, Oliver Heuss, Jennifer Pöllmann, Eberhard Abele and Tobias Melz

Actuator Systems for Morphing Aircraft

Rukshan Navaratne, Iman Dayyani, Benjamin K.S. Woods, Edward Bubert and Michael I. Friswell

 

17.40

Reception and Poster Session for non-attending PhD’s

 

19.00

Conference dinner at Glue & Culture

 

Program: Wednesday October 8th 2014

 

Lecture Room

 

09.00

Keynote Lecture by Peter Wierach

 

Session 11: SMA Chair: Prof. Jinsong Leng

 

09.30

Design and experimental investigation of a hybrid linear actuator based on shape memory alloy

Xiaoguang Zhang, Jinhong Hu, Erbao Dong and Jie Yang

 

09.50

Joule Heating of Shape Memory Polymer with Magnetically Aligned Nickel Particles

Richard V. Beblo, James J. Joo and Gregory W. Reich

 

10.10

Effect of aging in the thermo-mechanical response of near-equiatomic Ni-rich shape memory alloys: A microstructure-informed model

A. Cox, T. Baxevanis, D.C. Lagoudas and I. Karaman

 

10.30

Break

 

Session 12: Energy Harvest Chair: Prof. Pim Groen

 

11.00

Functional composites for sensing and energy harvesting applications

H.Khanbareh, D. Deutz , N. James, S. van der Zwaag and P. Groen

 

11.20

Enhancement of Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting with a Beam Stiffener

Liya Zhao, Jieying Chong, Tian Loong, Jonathan Ng and Yaowen Yang

 

11.40

An alternative architecture for self-powered SSHI circuit for micro energy harvesters

Sou Peng Yeh, Ya-Shan Shih, Shun Chiu Lin and Wen-Jong Wu

 

12.00

Piezoelectric composite touch sensors for integration with flexible OLED technology

D.B. Deutz, E. Tempelman, S. van der Zwaag, W.A. Groen

 

12.20

Lunch

 

Session 13: Morphing Chair: Prof. Norman Wereley

 

13.20

Structural Analysis of an Unconventional Hybrid Control Surface of a Morphing Wing

Pınar Arslan, Uğur Kalkan, Harun Tiraş, İlhan Ozan Tunçöz, Yosheph Yang, Ercan Gürses, Melin Şahin, Serkan Özgen and Yavuz Yaman

 

13.40

Optimized Negative Stiffness Spring System for Morphing Aircraft Actuation

B.K.S. Woods and M.I. Friswell

 

14.00

High Bandwidth Morphing Aerofoil

S. Fichera, S. Jiffri, X. Wei and J. E. Mottershead

 

Session 14: Vibration Chair: Prof. Fred Nitzsche

 

14.20

Active structural acoustic control using piezo-based rotational inertial shakers

G. Zhao, N. Alujevic, B. Depraetere, G. Pinte, J. Swevers and P. Sas

 

14.40

Integrated Feedback/Feedforward Control of Flexible Spacecraft for Agile Attitude Maneuver and Vibration Suppression                                                                                          
Hiroshi Okubo and Shinya Kuwamoto

 

15.00

Simultaneous optimization of distribution and gain of piezoelectric sensor networks for the improvement of active vibration control                                                                       Augusto Shigueoka and Marcelo A. Trindade

 

15.20

Conference Closure

 

ICAST2014 POSTER PRESENTATIONS

 

Poster judges:

Prof. Inderjit Chopra           (University of Maryland, USA)
Dr. Eric Chen                       (NRC, Ottawa, Canada)

Prof. Paolo Ermanni             (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Prof. Kon-Well Wang            (University of Michigan, USA)

Dr. Razvann Rusovici            (Florida Institute of Technologies, USA)

Prof. Fabrizio Scarpa            (University of Bristol, UK)

 

 

Design of smart lightweight structures: Simultaneous optimization of mechanical and shunt circuit parameters

Rogério Salloum, Oliver Heuss and  Dirk Mayer

 

Morphing thickness in airfoils using Pneumatic Flexible Tubes and Kirigami honeycomb

Jian Sun, Fabrizio Scarpa and  Jinsong Leng

 

Development of the micro piezoelectric bimorph energy harvesters based on stainless steel substrate inthe vibration generator

C.L. Kuo, S.C. Lin and W.J. Wu

 

Low-Velocity Impact Response of Smart Sandwich Composite Plates with Piezoelectric Transducers: Modeling and Experiment

Theofanis S. Plagianakos, Evangelos G. Papadopoulos and Klajd Lika

 

Morphology development of an airfoil by numerical analysis

M.A. Carrizales Rodríguez and  M. Castillo Morales

 

Comparison of two Types of Adaptive Vibration Absorbers

G. de Rue, T. Röglin, J. Vrbata, S. Gaisbauer, D. Mayer and  T. Melz

 

Morphing curved sandwich structure with Kirigami zero Poisson’s ratio core

Yijin Chen, Fabrizio Scarpa, Chrystel Remillat, Ian Farrow and  Jinsong Leng

 

Skyhook damping on two degree of freedom systems and on double panels

Neven Alujevic, Guoying Zhao, Paul Sas, Bert Pluymers and  Wim Desmet

 

Experimental study on active noise- and active vibration-control for a passenger car using novel piezoelectric engine mounts and electrodynamic inertial mass actuators

Roman Kraus, Jonathan Millitzer, Jan Hansmann, Stefan Wolter and  Marco Jackel

 

Nonlinear piezoelectric shell model with complete electro-mechanical coupling: theoretical and numerical investigations

Michele Pasquali and Paolo Gaudenzi

 

Mechanical Properties of Styrene-based Shape Memory Polymer Composites Enhanced by Elastic Fibers

Yanju Liu, Jian Sun and  Jinsong Leng

 

Fatigue behavior of corrugated skin for morphing aircraft

Mohammad Silani, Iman Dayyani, Michael I. Friswell and Hossein Talebi

 

Mixed Variable Structural Optimization of a Parameterized Span Morphing Wing

Edward A. Bubert, Benjamin K.S. Woods, Rukshan Navaratne, Christopher S. Beaverstock and Michael I. Friswell

 

Model Validation of a FishBAC Morphing Wing with a Corrugated Skin

Iman Dayyani, Rukshan Navaratne, Benjamin K.S. Woods, Mohammad Silan and Michael I. Friswell

 

MEMS for structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades

Aubryn M. Cooperman and Marcias J. Martinez

 

Measuring thermal diffusion in fiber metal laminates

Bernhard Müller, Sofia Teixeira De Freitas and  Jos Sinke

 

Shape optimization of flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters

F. Van Loock, D. Deutz, S. van der Zwaag and P. Groen

 

Spin Coating Graphene Composite Inks For VOCs Gas Sensor Detection

Sung-Yuan Yang, Wei Wang,, Wen-Jong Wu and  Chih-Ting Lin

 

Improving the working frequency of SMA wires: active cooling and strain-ratios

Adrián Lara-Quintanilla and  Harald E.N. Bersee

 

Understanding the Change in Electrical Resistance in Shape Memory Alloys

Freek Sluis, Rinze Benedictus, Harald E.N. Bersee and Rene C. Alderliesten

 

Numerical investigation of the hydrogel swelling behaviour under chemical and mechanical loads

Peter Leichsenring and Thomas Wallmersperger

 

Air-coupled ultrasound for damage detection in CFRP using Lamb waves and ultrasonic verification

G. Alleman, M.M.J.M. Pel and  R.M. Groves

 

SMA Enriched High Temperature Polymer Matrix Composites: An Interfacial Study from Experimental and Computational Perspectives

Hieu Truong

 

Shape memory composite structures and applications in aerospace

Jinsong Leng

 

Adaptive bearing housing for damping treatment

Michal Lubieniecki and Tadeusz Uhl

 

An FBG based Sensor for Morphing Rib Architectures: Conceptual Design and Numerical Modeling

G. Amendola, M. Ciminello, I. Dimino and  S. Ameduri

 

A Coupled Thermo-mechanical Element Based on the First-Order Shear Deformation Theory for the Analysis of Shape Memory Alloys

Lin Hao, Jinhao Qiu and Hongli Ji

 

Bandwidth enhancement of a piezoelectric energy harvester using parametrically induced vibrations.

Panduranga Vittal Avvari, Yaowen Yang and Chee Kiong Soh