May 22nd, 2012
To be held in Dresden/Germany at the Dresden Congress Centre on Friday July 6, 2012, 9:00-12:00 a.m. along with the 6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
A combination of new challenges and technologies are emerging that entail the potential to radically change the way modern aerospace structural systems are designed and operated. The expanding application of composite materials into aerospace structures, the adoption of new manufacturing techniques etc. will be discussed at the DATCOMSS workshop in terms of future research to be performed, specifically on an EU-US basis and which is also core within the activities at the 6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring.
The DATCOMSS workshop is organised by Prof Christian Boller (Fraunhofer IZFP) and Prof Costas Soutis (University of Sheffield, UK).
Motivation:
A combination of new challenges and technologies are emerging that entail the potential to radically change the way modern aerospace structural systems are designed and operated. New challenges are imposed by the expanding application of composite materials into aerospace structures. Together with the adoption of new manufacturing techniques, composite materials provide the means for reducing weight, manufacturing costs, and improving structural properties. The expanding application of composites also coincides with recent advancements in the production of novel nanostructured and microstructured composite materials exhibiting advanced mechanical and structural properties and multi-functionality. Those nanoparticles may even serve as sensors and might be combined with internal stimuli generated as acoustic, thermal or electromagnetic signals through actuation devices being implemented into the composite material as well. These new material technologies open the way for new applications of composite materials, as they provide new capabilities and opportunities, not previously foreseen. The expanding application of composite materials faces challenges in terms of increasing internal complexity spanning from the nano- and micro-scale (~10-8 m) to the scale of components (~m). This is combined with the scales of allowable damage, which is driven by the reliably detectable damage on the one side and damage propagation and tolerable damage on the other. It is what is encompassed as structural health monitoring and which can provide an additional impact on composite materials with regard to their light weight potential. The context of all of this is intended to be discussed at the DATCOMSS workshop in terms of future research to be performed, specifically on an EU-US basis and which is also core within the activities at the 6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring.
6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring:
The European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) was first run in 2002 in Cachan near Paris/France and has been consecutively held every two years at different places throughout Europe. It has grown over the years significantly and has become the strong counterpart to the Internat. Workshop on SHM (IWSHM) held in Stanford/CA every odd year. For 2012 EWSHM will be merged with the 1st European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society. PHM has become an increasingly important subject, specifically within the context of getting SHM into application. The scope of EWSHM includes: Physical monitoring principles in general (visual, mechanical, acoustic, electrical, thermal, etc.), signal processing (FFT, wavelet, PCA, feature extraction, pattern recognition, etc.), structural simulation (stress & strain, modal, acoustics, electromagnetics, thermal, neural networks, etc.), sensors and sensor systems (piezoelectric, fibre optic, electromagnetic, MEMS, nano agents, etc.), principles of SHM-based structural monitoring, design, and maintenance, SHM applications (aerospace, marine, railway, automotive, pipelines, civil engineering, energy generation and distribution, production, etc.). More information on EWSHM can be obtained on: http://www.ewshm2012.com/
Attendance at the DATCOMSS workshop for registered EWSHM participants is for free
The announcement of the workshop and the agenda are available in the attachment
Related files: DATCOMSS_040740.zip