Welcome to
International Conference
on
Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures:
Mathematical Modeling and Computation

14-16 April, 2008, Tangier, Morocco
                                                             
Chairman:    Prof.  Lahcen   Azrar

 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tangier,
University Abdemalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco

Hôtel Rif & Spa ( * * * * )

Conference Objectives

Smart materials and adaptive structures are those that can sense external stimuli and then respond to those stimuli by some means in real or near real-time. Piezoelectric materials, shape-memory alloys, electrostrictive materials, magnetostrictive materials, electrorheological fluids are some examples of currently available smart materials. These materials and adaptive structures are and will solve engineering problems with hitherto unachievable efficiency and provide an opportunity for new wealth creating products. Modelling, understanding, testing and using these advanced materials may make the deference between success and failure in today’s intensely scientific and industrial competitions 

This conference intends to be an event in which researchers make contacts and consolidate ideas. Its focus is on exchanging new research results in the broad fields of mathematical modelling and scientific computing for smart materials and adaptive structures. This involves a multidisciplinary contribution of scientists and experts active in a variety of disciplines gathering applied mathematics, modelling, mechanics, and physics and computing algorithms, codes and methods. An interdisciplinary platform will be offered to all researchers, developers and practitioners at Nano, Micro and Macro levels.

This conference will address new developments of the theoretical and numerical modelling, characterization, identification, optimisation and control of adaptive structures and devices incorporating smart materials.

This international meeing aims to combine presentations of scientific work with both academic and real applications that focus on any of the topics of interest. The scientific quality of the submitted papers will be examined. Accepted articles will be collected and published in the Proceedings book. They must be presented by one of the authors during the congress.

• Sensors and Actuators
  
• Piezoelectric, ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials
• Shape memory allow and magnetostrictive material
• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
• Composite materials and nonlinear mechanics
• Adaptive structures and computational structural mechanics
• Active and passive vibration control
• Structural health monitoring

•  Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation

• Optimal control and optimization techniques
• Inverse problems and system identification
• Bifurcation, stability and chaos

Special issues of Journal and the Proceedings.

The scientific quality of the submitted papers will be examined. Accepted papers must be presented either orally (slides, data projectors and a PC with standard presentation software will be available) or as poster panels.

Proceedings

Accepted articles will be collected and published in a Proceedings book. They must be presented by one of the authors during the congress.

Authors, with accepted abstract, are invited to submit a contributed paper to the conference for the proceeding book. Submission of Three pages full paper should be completed before March 16, 2008.

The three pages full paper should be written in English using word.

 

Make 2cm space on the top, the bottom and the both sides, respectively. Times font or equivalent with 11 points for a word and single space between lines are recommended.

 

Reference

[1] W. P. Mason, Piezoelectricity, its history and applications, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 70 (6) p. 1561, 1981.

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The notification of the final acceptance, coorections if needed, for the full paper will be informed to authors before March 21, 2008.

 

The 3 pages full paper has to be sent directly to the chairman of the organizing committee using the following e-mail addresses:

l.azrar@uae.ma  and azrarlahcen@yahoo.fr

and to

abelfekih@menara.ma

 

 

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Submission of Conference Papers for Journal Publication

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It is possible to submit papers, presented at the conference, for subsequent publication in special issues of the following international Journals:

 

1)    Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Transactions of ASME.

or

2)    International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics (IJMS)

 

Information on how to submit papers for the special issue will be available on the web site very soon.