Tracks

Track Chair
Erkan Oterkus
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Vice Track Chair
Dr. Xin-Lin Gao
Southern Methodist University

The Structures Track contains a wide range of topics in the broad area of aerospace structures, which are individually organized by leading researchers in the corresponding field. The track provides a stage for engineers and scientists from all over the world to exchange their experimental, computational, and analytical studies in various sub-areas of aerospace structures, including adaptive & multifunctional structures, advanced manufacturing, metamaterials, applications of artificial intelligence/machine learning, impact, fatigue, damage & fracture of composite structures, nonlinear problems in aerospace structures, nondestructive evaluation & structural health monitoring, peridynamics & its applications, space structures, structures in extreme environments, and wind energy. Contributions on other topics related to aerospace structures are also strongly encouraged.

Track Chair
Weihua Su
University of Alabama

Vice Track Chair
Zahra Sotoudeh
Cal Poly Pomona

The Structural Dynamics Track contains research topics of responses of flexible aircraft and components under various dynamic loads from different disciplines such as aerodynamics, thermodynamics, acoustics, control, and flight mechanics. In addition, the characteristics of stability boundary, post-stability behavior, and the control and suppression of unstable vibration are of interest to the track. Submissions of papers regarding the new studies in analytical, computational, and experimental structural dynamics are welcomed. Please submit abstracts to the topic best describing your research or “General Topics” if your research is out of the list.

Track Chair
Evan Pineda
NASA Glenn Research Center

Vice Track Chair
Yongming Liu
Arizona State University

The Materials Track contains a wide range of topics in the broad area of aerospace materials, which are individually organized by leading researchers in the corresponding field. The track covers many traditional topics on fatigue and fracture, mechanics, computational materials, nanomaterials, manufacturing, and experimental characterization. The track also covers some emerging fields within materials, such as AI and material development, computational material design, extreme environments, and other emerging material technologies. The track provides a forum for worldwide material researchers and engineers to exchange ideas and promote collaborations.