AEROSTRUCTURES

Today's aerostructures require stringent technical and certification as well as financial requirements compliance. These conflicting requirements can be met effectively by bringing together the researchers from academia and industry. IBCAST is one such event that provides a platform through its Aerostructures track for the researchers and educators to share their experiences and knowledge in this important field of science and technology. This forum encompass numerous challenges faced by the aerospace industry during the design, development and testing phases and which can only be met by the use of state of the art computational tools, like finite element method, boundary element method and smooth particle hydrodynamics coupled with powerful computing hardware. The research topics that will be discussed in this track include, but not limited to:

• Aerospace Structural Design
• Advanced Numerical Techniques
• Static and Dynamic Aero-elasticity
• Vibration, Acoustics and Model Analysis
• High Strain Rate Impact Simulations
• Fatigue Life and Damage Tolerance
• Structural Optimization
• Bio-mechanics
• Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
• Advanced Testing Techniques
• Structural Reliability Analysis
• Joints & Interfaces Design
• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
• NDI for Composites
• Wave and Wind Loading
• Case Studies for Failure of Aero-Structures
• Design of Thin Walled Structures
• Model Correlation and Updating
• FSI and Aero-Thermal Heating
• Sub-structuring and Multiscale Modeling
• Multi-Body Dynamics
• Morphing Technology