13th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, 2002

Papers from an October 2002 conference report on recent research in adaptive structures and technologies, touching on modeling, novel applications, control, large projects, active plates and shells, electro- and magnetorheological fluids, piezoelectrics, aerospace and aerostatic applications, health monitoring and reliability, shape memory alloys, vibration control and reduction, and novel piezoelectric actuators and sensors. Some specific topics examined include structural control of a prototype building using an MR damper, hybrid passive-active vibration control of composite beams, dynamics of a geometry adaptive truss with wire member actuators, high- frequency pumping behavior of a piezohydraulic actuator, and finite element models for active laminated shells. Breitbach; Elmar J. DLR Institute of Structural Mechanics, Germany,Campanile; L. F. DLR, Denmark,