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Smart Structures/NDE is a multidisciplinary forum that seeks to advance smart structures and vehicles, biomimetics and robotics, multifunctional materials, sensors, medeling, NDE, and structural monitoring technologies.

Biomimetics: Lessons from Nature This talk will provide a broad overview of various objects and processes of interest found in nature and applications under development or available in the marketplace. Bharat Bhushan Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics, Ohio State Univ. (United States)

Special Session: Tactile and Haptic Interfaces/Displays
(e.g., Braille displays)
Haptic and tactile interfaces/displays are increasingly becoming part of the tools that are used to interact with and/or thru computers (e.g. teleoperators and simulators, computer and video games, robotics). EAP has enormous potential for enabling effective and exciting tactile/haptic mechanisms and Braille Displays are already under development.

Course
A one-day course on Electroactive Polymer Actuators + Devices.

Exhibition
Be part of a exhibition one-on-one interaction with researchers and exhibitors. Product areas in 2009: mechanical testing, materials characterization,DMA, fracture mechanics, shape memory polymer, high-performance composite, sensors, reflexive systems, smart tooling, vibration isolation, actuation, flight motion simulators, polyPower DEAP film, 3D imaging, photomasks, 3D photoresist patterning, photoplotting, structural health monitoring, data acquisition, acceleromete, fiber optic components, attenuators, laser to fiber delivery systems

Plan to attend SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010 in San Diego,
- join the leaders in adpative structures and mechanisim research. Attend a conference where engineers and researchers share ideas and find technical solutions, funding sources, and personal connections that help ensure their success.

Smart Structures/NDE 2009 Overview

Smart Structures/NDE 2009 ended on 12 March 2009. SPIE would like to thank the organizing committee and everyone who made the event a great success.

Future Challenges in Aeronautics R&D Monday 9 March 8:30 to 9:15 am Jaiwon Shin, NASA - Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (USA)

Beyond PZT-Based Actuators: Bridging Material Science and Engineering Monday 9 March 9:15 to 10:00 am Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

Energy Harvesting: Small Scale Energy Production from Ambient Sources Tuesday 10 March 8:20 to 9:05 am Eric M. Yeatman, Imperial College London (UK)

NDE Simulations: Critical Tools in the Integration of NDE and SHM Wednesday 11 March 8:20 to 9:05 am R. Bruce Thompson, Ames Lab./NDE Ctr., Iowa State Univ. (USA)

A Paleo-aerodynamic Exploration of the Evolution of Nature's Flyers, Man's Aircraft, and the Needs and Options for Future Technology Innovations Thursday 12 March 8:20 to 9:05 am Brenda M. Kulfan, Brenda M. Kulfan, The Boeing Co. (USA)

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