Smart Structures and Applications in Aerospace Engineering
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: morphing aircraft; smart structures; aircraft design; structural dynamics
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Interests: smart materials and structures; shape-memory alloy actuators; piezoelectric actuators; functional devices for aerospace engineering; morphing aircrafts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart structures have been the focus of research in the previous few decades, and they have the potential to improve the performance of various machines. Becoming “smart” means that the structures have the potential to change their properties adaptively according to their mission requirements. To achieve this objective, the structures can be tuned passively by their design and optimisation. Also, the structures can be controlled actively by the integration of actuators and sensors.
The rapid development of new materials, electronics, and design methods provided a strong technological push for smart structures in the field of aerospace engineering, aiming to improve the load-carrying, shape-changing, damage-detecting, and other capabilities of future aircrafts.
We are pleased to announce This Special Issue, ‘Smart Structures And Applications in Aerospace Engineering’, and kindly invite the submission of full research and review papers on the design and optimisation of smart structures that use theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches in the field of aeronautics and aeronautics.
Prof. Dr. Chen Wang
Prof. Dr. Xing Shen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart structures
- adaptive structures
- morphing structures
- vibration and noise control
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