Conference Chair
Dr. George
A. Lesieutre
The Pennsylvania State
University, USA
Conference
Co-Chairs
Dr. Michael Brennan
University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Kenji Uchino
The Pennsylvania State University,
USA
Dr. Iwao Hayashi
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
JAPAN
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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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