Shawn Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Christian Linder, Stanford University
This mini symposium brings researchers from a variety of backgrounds together in order to exchange and discuss ideas related to active materials and structures. This is an exciting area related to the incorporation of multi-physics mechanics, multi-functional materials, varying length and time scales, and more, into the response of the material and/or structure.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- 4D printed materials and structures
- Chemically actuated biological materials and structures
- Shape-morphing materials and structures
- Shape memory materials and structures
- Thermo-active materials and structures
- Electro-active materials and structures
- Magneto-active materials and structures
- Light-active materials and structures
- Mimicking natural actuators
This mini symposium is sponsored by the USACM Technical Thrust Area on Multi-Scale, Multi-functional Materials and Structures.