Mini Symposium Details

02: Adaptive Structures: Theory, Modelling, Simulation and Evaluation

• Florian Geiger, Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart
• Christian Kelleter, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, University of Stuttgart

In order to meet the requirements of tomorrow’s world engineers and architects must design extremely efficient structures. Making structures adaptive is a promising approach to reach that target. The efficiency of structures can be increased noticeably by the employment of sensors, actuators and control units. Hence modelling, simulation and evaluation of the active manipulation of deformations, forces, stiffness and vibrations in a structural system become important in recent years.

Adaptive structures play already an important role in the fields of mechanical and aeronautical engineering. In civil engineering applications this role becomes increasingly larger. The field of smart structures requires a very interdisciplinary approach of working. In this sense this mini-symposium will provide a platform for discussion and meetings. It covers topics concerning development, optimization, construction and evaluation of all kind of adaptive structures. As well as theoretical topics, modelling issues and results of numerical simulation or experiments can be presented at the mini-symposium.

Topics

• form finding and optimization of adaptive structures
• sensing and actuation in structures
• computational methods and simulation techniques
• structural control and identification
• engineering applications of smart systems