SPIE Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring 2012

SPIE Smart Structures/NDE is a multidisciplinary forum that seeks to advance research in adeptive structures and mechanisms, smart sensors, NDE, civil infrastructure, aerospace systems, energy harvesting, and more. Other topics to be covered include a special session on wind energy applications; smart structures and materials; automotive and aerospace applications; actuators and damping; structural health monitoring; nanotechnology; civil infrastructure systems; modeling, control and optimization; energy harvesting/energy systems; bio-inspired and robotic systems; electroactive polymers; shape memory alloys; MR fluids and elastomers; pizoelectric materials; embedded and self-diagnostic sensors; optical fiber sensors; sensor networks; and real-time NDE.