This work was compiled with expanded and reviewed contributions from the 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, that was held from 3 to 6 June 2015 at Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. The Conference provided a comprehensive forum for discussing the current state of the art in the field as well as generating inspiration for future ideas specifically on a multidisciplinary level.
The scope of the Conference included topics related to the following areas:
Fundamentals of smart materials and structures; Modeling/formulation and characterization of smart actuators, sensors and smart material systems; Trends and developments in diverse areas such as material science including composite materials, intelligent hydrogels, interfacial phenomena, phase boundaries and boundary layers of phase boundaries, control, micro- and nano-systems, electronics, etc. to be considered for smart systems; Comparative evaluation of different smart actuators and sensors; Analysis of structural concepts and designs in terms of their adaptability to smart technologies; Design and development of smart structures and systems; Biomimetic phenomena and their inspiration in engineering; Fabrication and testing of smart structures and systems; Applications of smart materials, structures and related technology; Smart robots; Morphing wings and smart aircrafts; Artificial muscles and biomedical applications; Smart structures in mechatronics; and Energy harvesting.

State of the art in Smart Structures and Materials Contains contributions from the top experts in the field The diversity of disciplines involved makes this one of the most interdisciplinary engineering fields Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Preface.- Active Control of the Hinge of a Flapping Wing with Electrostatic Sticking to Modify the Passive Pitching Motion, by Hugo Peters, Qi Wang, Hans Goosen and Fred van Keulen .- Robust Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization-Based Inverse Identification Of Three-Dimensional Elastic Behaviour Of Multilayer Unidirectional Fibre Composites, by Mohsen Hamdi, Ayech Benjeddou.- Role of structural nonlinearity in enhancing the performance of vibration energy harvesting based on electret materials, by Eugenio G.M. Brusa, Mircea Gh. Munteanu.- Nanoscale Future Actuators based on Carbon Nanotube Architectures, by Sebastian Geier, Thorsten Mahrholz, Peter Wierach, Michael Sinapius.- Towards the Industrial Application of Morphing Aircraft Wings - Development of the Actuation Kinematics of a Droop Nose, by Stefan Storm , Johannes Kirn.- Numerical analysis of fracture of pre-stressed ferroelectric actuator taking into account cohesive zone for damage accumulation, by SergiiKozinov and Meinhard Kuna.- Adaptive Inductor for Vibration Damping in Presence of Uncertainty, by Bilal Mokrani, Ioan Burda, André Preumont.- Control System Design for a Morphing Wing Trailing Edge, by Ignazio Dimino1a, Monica Ciminelloa, Antonio Concilioa,Andrè Gratiasb, Martin Schuellerb, Rosario Pecorac.- Efficient Experimental Validation of Stochastic Sensitivity Analyses of Smart Systems, by Steffen Ochs, Sushan Li, Christian Adams, Tobias Melz.-Design of Control Concepts for a Smart Beam Structure with Regard to Sensitivity Analysis of the System by Sushan Li, Steffen Ochs, Elena Slomski, Tobias Melz.- Modelling the Constitutive Behaviour of Martensite and Austenite in Shape Memory Alloys using closed-form Analytical Continuous Equations, by Arathi Pai, Thomas Niendorf, Phillip Krooss, Isabel Koke, Ansgar Traechtler and Mirko Schaper.- Methods For Assessment Of Composite Aerospace Structures, by T. Wandowski, P. Malinowski, M. Radzienski, S. Opoka, W. Ostachowicz.- Artificial muscles design methodology applied to robotic fingers, by J. L. Ramírez, A. Rubiano, N. Jouandeau, L. Gallimard, and O. Polit.- Reliability Analysis of Variable Stiffness Composite Structures, by A.R. Sohoulia, M. Yildizb, A. Suleman.