Sunday, July 29, 2001

17:00 - 19:00 Conference Registration

19:30 - 21:00 Dinner

21:00 - 22:00 Reception

Monday, July 30, 2001

07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast

08:15 - 08:30 Opening Remarks:
Dr. George Lesieutre, Conference Chair
Dr. Gary Koopmann, Conference Liaison

SESSION I: ACTIVE PANELS
Session Chair: Jean-Paul Berhault

08:30 - 09:10 Active Structural Acoustic Control of Sound Transmission
Through a Panel Using Accelerometers and Piezoelectric Films Sensor/Actuator Transducers
Paolo Gardonio, Young Sup Lee, and Stephen Elliott
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK

09:10 - 09:50 Recent Results on Feedback Control of Double Wall Structures
Stan J. Pietrzko, EMPA Swiss Federal Labs, Switzerland
O. Kaiser and M. Morari, ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:00 Thin-Panel Speakers
Hannu Nykanen, VTT, Finland

11:00 - 11:45 Discussion: "Whither Smart Surfaces?"
Jean-Paul Berhault
EURESIS S.A., Lyon, France

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 17:30 Ad hoc Sessions and/or free time

17:30 - 18:00 Afternoon coffee

SESSION II: INSECT EMULATION
Session Chair: Kenji Uchino

18:00 - 18:45 The Flight Motor of an Insect - Can We Learn Anything in the Design of Micro-Air Vehicles?
Michael Brennan, Stephen Elliott and Philip Bonello, ISVR, University of Southampton, UK
Julian Vincent, University of Bath, UK

18:45 - 19:30 Study of the Sound Generation Mechanism of Crickets for Converting Noise To Pleasant Sound
Iwao Hayashi
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

19:45 -21:00 Dinner

21:00 - 22:00 Social Hour

Tuesday, July 31, 2001

07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast

SESSION III: SHAPE CONTROL OF AEROSPACE VEHICLES
Session Chair: Antonio Concilio

08:30 - 09:10 Piezoelectric and Material Adaptive Control of Aero-Viscoelastic Structures
Harry H. Hilton and Cristina E. Beldica
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

09:10 - 09:50 Turbomachinery Liner Deformation for Unsteady Force Control
Michael Jonson
Penn State University, USA

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee Break

10:10 - 10:50 Shape Control of Adaptive Aerospace Vehicles
Antonio Concilio
C.I.R.A., Capua, Italy

10:50 - 11:30 The DARPA/AFRL Smart Wing Program
Jay Kudva
Northrop-Grumman, El Segundo, CA, USA

11:30 - 11:50 Discussion

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 17:30 Ad hoc Sessions and/or free time

17:30 - 18:00 Afternoon coffee

SESSION VII: DAMPING
Session Chair: George Lesieutre

18:00 - 18:45 Investigation of Active and Passive Tuned Liquid Column Dampers to Control Structural Vibrations
Markus Hochrainer
Technical University of Vienna, Austria

18:45 - 19:30 Damping Control by Smart Joints
Luther Gaul and Rainer Nitsche
Institute A of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

19:45 -21:00 Dinner

21:00 - 22:00 Social Hour

Wednesday, August 1, 2001

07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast

SESSION V: PIEZO-ELECTRONICS
Session Chair: Douglas Lindner

08:30 - 09:15 Optimized Electronics for Active Materials
Douglas Lindner
Virginia Tech, USA

09:15 - 10:00 Piezoelectric Transformers for Driving Piezoelectric Actuators
Kenji Uchino, Alfredo Vazquez Carazo
Penn State University, USA

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Materials
George Lesieutre, Heath Hofmann, and Geff Ottman
Penn State University, PA, USA

11:15 - 11:50 Discussion

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 17:30 Ad hoc Sessions and/or free time

17:30 - 18:00 Afternoon coffee

SESSION VI: IDENTIFICATION
Session Chair: Ichiro Hagiwara

18:00 - 18:45 Structural Identification Using Neural Networks
Wakae Kozukue and Hideyuki Miyaji
Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan

18:45 - 19:30 System Identification and Adaptive Compensation of Nonlinear Behavior in Piezoelectric Actuators
P. Annema, C.H. Slump, University of Twente, The Netherlands
A.P. Berkhoff, TNO TPD, Acoustics Division, The Netherlands

19:45 -21:00 Dinner

21:00 - 22:00 Social Hour

Thursday, August 2, 2001

07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast

SESSION VIII: ACTIVE CONTROL
Session Chair: Michael Brennan

08:30 - 09:10 Acoustic Control in Enclosures using Optimally-Designed Helmholtz Resonators
Patricia Driesch
Penn State University, USA

09:10 - 09:50 Active Control of Interior Noise Using Mode-Superposition Technique for Truncating Lower- and/or Higher-Frequency Modes
Ichiro Hagiwara
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee Break

10:10 - 10:50 Robust Control of Smart Structural Systems Using Multiobjective Optimization Techniques
Vittal S. Rao
University of Missouri- Rolla, USA

10:50 - 11:30 Active Control of Flexural Waves in IN VACUO Pipes
W. Variyart and M.J. Brennan
Dynamics Group, ISVR, University of Southampton, UK

11:30 - 11:50 Discussion

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 17:30 Ad hoc Sessions and/or free time

17:45 - 18:00 Afternoon coffee

SESSION IV: COMPLEX CONTROLLED STRUCTURES
SessionChair: Douglas MacMartin

18:00 - 18:45 System Reliability of Smart Structures
Thilo Bein
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

18:45 - 19:30 Structural Control with Throusands of Sensors and Actuators:
The California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)
Douglas MacMartin
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

20:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet and Social Hour

Friday, August 3, 2001

07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast

SESSION IX: LARGE DISPLACEMENT DEVICES
Session Chair: Iwao Hayashi

08:30 - 09:15 Shape Memory Alloy Hybrid Composites
Travis Turner
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA

09:15 - 10:00 Compact Ultrasonic Motors
Kenji Uchino
Penn State University, USA

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 High-Power Density Piezoelectric Motors
Gary Koopmann, George Lesieutre, Eric Mockensturm, Jeremy Frank
Penn State University, USA

11:15 - 11:45 Conference Wrap-up and Discussion

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

14:00 Conference Adjournment

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