Smart Materials and Structures for Aerospace Sensing Systems and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Materials play an important part in defining the function of the structures that they are used for making. Nowadays, the entire world is moving towards automation and artificial intelligence (AI); therefore, it becomes necessary for the structures that are made to be intelligent and smart in order to adapt to their surroundings, increasing the efficiency and reducing the complexity of the design. Thus, there is a need to develop smart materials and structures for aerospace application which can sufficiently meet the demands of this expanding industry. Smart materials such as shape memory alloys (SMAs), piezoelectric materials, magnetostrictive materials, carbon Fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs), Shape memory polymers (SMPs), etc. are the materials that comprise the backbone of the latest aerospace applications. Developing materials and their corresponding structures that can be used for morphing applications is of strategic and economic importance for both civil and military applications. Specifically, for morphing applications, the element of the material should be one that can possess variable stiffness and allow the shape change to be a reversible process in real aerospace applications. This Special Issue covers these topics and focuses on different types of smart materials and structures that are used in the field of aerospace.

Dr. Wenjie Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhenbo Lu
Guest Editors

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