4th International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems Symposium G

Selected, peer reviewed papers from CIMTEC 2012 - 4th International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, June 10-14, 2012, Terme, Italy

• Preface and Committees
• Chapter 1: Smart Materials, Sensors, Actuators, MEMS
• Report on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake: Its Impact, and Control/Monitoring Performances
• Development of some Smart Sensors for Monitoring Civil Infrastructures
• Fatigue of NiTi for Dampers and Actuators
• On Characteristic Properties of a Layered Packet Base-Foundation on the Base of the Analysis of the Solutions of the Corresponding Three-Dimensional Dynamic Problems of Elasticity Theory
• Chapter 2: Integration Technologies
• Model Order Reduction Issues for Integrated Structural Control Design
• A Mathematical Framework for Structural Control Integration
• Insight and Applications in Energy Harvesting from Bullets to Birds
• A Fractal-Inspired Multi-Frequency Piezoelectric Energy Converter: Design and Experimental Characterization
• Chapter 3: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems
• Seismic Protection of Structures Using Tuned Mass Dampers with Resettable Variable Stiffness
• Mechanics and Model Based Control
• Vibration-Based Damage Detection under Changing Environmental and Operational Conditions
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Control for Life-Cycle Performance of Intelligent Civil Structures
• High Precision Adaptive Space Structures
• Deployable Structures
• SHM System for Monitoring and Prediction of Cracks Development in Concrete Structures
• Smart Composite Device for Structural Health Monitoring
• Real-Time Smart Abstract Shape Identifiers
• Safety Assessment of Bridge Structures Using Ambient Vibration
• Chapter 4: Structural Health Monitoring and Control
• Digital Wireless Solutions for Structural Control
• Structural Control Issues in New Generation Offshore Wind Energy Plants
• Structural Health Monitoring of a Tall Building with Huge Floating Platform
• Development of a Visualized Data Management System for Life-Cycle Health Monitoring of Civil Structures
• Ultrasonic Guided Wave Monitoring of Railroad Tracks
• NDE/SHM of Underwater Structures: A Review
• Magnetic Flux Leakage Sensing-Based Steel Cable NDE Technique Incorporated on a Cable Climbing Robot for Bridge Structures
• Sensor Location Analysis in Nonlinear Acoustics Used for Damage Detection in Composite Chiral Sandwich Panels
• A Comparative Assessment of Two SHM Damage Detection Methods in a Laboratory Tower