8th - 9th May 2019 | Croydon, London, UK

2nd International Conference on

Advances in Aerospace Structures, Systems &

Technology

AASST 2019 Call for Papers

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About the Conference Innovation and development of aircraft components through these ages have given the industry ability to fly across the globe

while giving the operators benefit of running with minimal costs. The aerospace industry has converged into a design methodol-

ogy that has not seen much review after the large scale integration of jet engines in 1960s. However with tougher environmen-

tal targets and regulations that are to be faced by the industry, a greater period of innovation is to be undertaken by the manu-

facturers. Flightpath 2050 set by the High Level Group of the European Commission on Research in Aviation has given the em-

phasis that the partnership between EU businesses and the Industry have to ambitiously further reduce noise, NOx and CO2.

With this visionary plan, it is anticipated that the industry will have the sufficient technologies and practices to reduce CO2

emissions per passenger kilometre by 75%, NOx by 90% and noise by 65% against the performance of aircrafts operated in

year 2000. To build a new viable aircraft, project period and development costs should be reduced. With the current airworthi-

ness regulatory framework there isn't much space for novelty designs. A performance based approach within the regulatory

framework will the give the design space to integrate innovative solutions with a clear premise to achieve zero safety risk.

AASST 2019 provides the perfect opportunity for you to do so, as it aims to provide an ideal platform for industry leading re-

searchers, technology developers, industrial players and supply chain partners to converge. Bringing the pioneers together the

conference aims to promote the methodologies, exchange of ideas and the way forward to commercialisation.

Organising Committee

Professor Purnendu Das ASRANet Ltd, UK

Technical Advisory Panel Prof Ranjan Banerjee

City, University of London , UK

Prof Atul Bhaskar

University of Southampton, UK

Dr. Stijn Debruyne

KU Leuven Bruges Campus, Belgium

Dr Johannes Dilinger

Institute of Aeroelasticity, Germany

Prof S Guo

University of Cranfield, UK

Prof David Kennedy

Cardiff University, UK

Prof Adrian Murphy

Queens University, UK

Dr Kiran Ramesh

University of Glasgow, UK

Prof Paul Weaver

University of Bristol, UK

Ali Zolghadri

Bordeaux University, France

Dr. Danila Prikazchikov

Keele University,UK

Conference Themes > Multi-Fidelity Simulation

Engines for Design

> Structural Design, Analysis

and Optimisation

> Autonomous Systems Opti-

misation

> Fluid-Structure Interaction

> Applied Aerodynamics and

Fluid Mechanics

> Crash and Impact Re-

sponse

> Fatigue and Fracture

> Aircraft Systems and Avion-

ics

> Propulsion and Energy Pro-

duction

> Aeroacoustics

> Fault Tolerance Design

> Fault Detection

> Micro-Electro-Mechanical

Systems

> Health Monitoring

> Advanced and Composite

Materials

> Robotics and Computer

Integrated Manufacturing

> Unmanned Aircraft Technol-

ogies

Registration Fees

Full Registration:

Student Registration:

£400

£200

Key Dates

Full Payment: 8th March 2019 Full Paper Submission: 8th April 2019

Abstract to be maximum of 300 words. Abstract/Paper format is available here

Keynote Speakers Prof. Adrian Murphy, Queens University, UK

Prof Ranjan Banerjee, City, University of London,

UK

Prof. Chiara Bisagni, University of Delft, Nether-

lands

Invited Speakers Prof. Sunetra Sarkar, IIT Madras, India

Dr. Kiran Ramesh, University of Glasgow, UK

Prof. Rui Bao, Beihang University, China

Dr. Danila Prikazchikov, University of Keele, UK

Prof. Sondipan Adhikari, University of Swansea,

UK

Dr. Krishnendu Halder, IIT Bombay, India

Dr.Andrew Lewis, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Dr.Matthieu Gresil, University of Manchester, UK

Dr.Noël Challamel , University of South Brittany

Prof Jian Wang, Kingston University, UK

Adrian Murphy : Queens University, Belfast, UK

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Ranjan Banerjee: City University UK

Adrian Murphy is Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast with research interests focused on predictive modelling, in particular developing meth-

ods to understand the influence of processes on product in-service performance and cost. His research has covered the structural and economic performance of laser beam

and friction stir welding for metal aerospace structures, thermoforming, layup automation, load case analysis and lightning strike on composite aerospace structures. He has

published over one hundred and forty journal and conference articles, including a significant number of projects on novel aerospace structural designs, manufacturing ap-

proaches and material systems. Much of this research has been in collaboration with industry enabling significant experimental validation of his work and enabling the inte-

gration of cost and whole-life analysis with structural design and manufacturing. He was a winner of the IMechE Thomas Hawksley medal in 2006, the Kenneth Harris James

Prize 2006. Adrian joined the staff of Queen's in 2002; he has a Masters degree in Aerospace Vehicle Design from Cranfield University and an Aeronautical Engineering

After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calcutta and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, respective-

ly, Ranjan Banerjee joined the Structural Engineering Division of the Indian Space Research Organisation, Trivandrum in 1971 and worked there for four years, first as a

Structural Engineer and then as a Senior Structural Engineer. Later in the year 1975 he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for a PhD degree at Cran-

field University where he conducted research within the technical areas of structural dynamics and aeroelasticity and received his PhD in 1978. He then joined the

Structural Engineering Division of the University of Cardiff and worked there for six years first as a Research Associate and then as a Senior Research Associate to investi-

gate the free vibration and buckling characteristics of space structures using the dynamic stiffness method. He joined City, University of London in 1985 as a Lecturer in

Aircraft Structures and he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader in 1994 and 1998 respectively. In March 2003 he was promoted to a Personal Chair in Structural

Dynamics. To date Professor Banerjee has published 112 journal papers and 95 conference papers from his research. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded

a DSc by City, University of London in 2016

Sunetra Sarkar, IIT Madras, India

Kiran Ramesh, University of Glasgow, UK

Kiran Ramesh is a Lecturer in Aerospace Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this, he has obtained his MS and PhD degrees from North Carolina State University,

USA. His research areas are unsteady aerodynamics and nonlinear aeroelasticity, and his research methodology involves the development of analytical and low-order nu-

merical methods for modelling the underlying phenomena. He works on various engineering problems underpinned by these research areas such as developing control laws

for highly flexible aircraft, design of flapping-wing flyers/swimmers, and the use of flapping wings for renewable power generation. In his research career, he has introduced

a new aerodynamic entity called the Leading Edge Suction Parameter (LESP) which is used to augment potential-flow solvers like panel codes with the capability to predict

and model leading edge vortex (LEV) formation. This concept and the discrete-vortex code based on it are being used and developed further by several research groups

around the world.

Chiara Bisagni, University of Delft, Netherlands

Sunetra Sarkar is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005.

Before joining IIT Madras, she has worked at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands as a Post Doctoral Fellow during 2005-2006.

She was a NWO Rubicon fellow in the Netherlands during 2006-2007. She was a visiting scientist in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Chalmers University, Sweden

in 2010. She had won the prestigious Amelia Earhardt fellowship award for women scientists in aerospace sciences & engineering in 2001. Her broad research interests

include, nonlinear dynamical systems, fluid structure and acoustic-structure interactions and stochastic uncertainty quantification. Her present projects are in the areas of

experimental investigation of aeroelastic flutter, fluid structure interaction problems in flapping wings and stochastic noise induced dynamics of bluff-bodies in cross-flow.

Dynamics of aeroelastic flutter under stochastic noise

Using Design Freedom To Improve Aerospace Stiffened Panel Buckling Performance

On the Dynamical Behaviour of a Range Transport Aircraft

Design, optimization and validation of constant and variable angle tow composite cylindrical shells

Chiara Bisagni is Full Professor and Chair of the section of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of

Technology in the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she then became Assistant and later Associate

Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Before joining Delft University of Technology in January 2015, she was Full Professor at the University of California

San Diego in the US. Chiara Bisagni received several awards, including an Amelia Earhart Fellowship, a Marie Curie Research Training Grant from the European Commission,

a Fulbright Grant, and she is Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). She is Associate Editor of AIAA Journal, and member of Execu-

tive Council of the International Committee on Composite Materials.Her research topics are aerospace composite structures, and in particular buckling, impact, crashworthi-

ness, damage propagation and fatigue. Her approach combines experimental activities, as well as analytical and numerical techniques for design, analysis and optimization.

Low-order modelling of unsteady separate flows

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ABOUT KEYNOTE & INIVITED SPEAKERS

Rui Bao, Beihang University, China

Danila Prikazchikov, University of Keele, UK

Andrew Lewis, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Krishnendu Halder, IIT Bombay, India

A Perspective on Structural Health and Usage Monitoring in Aerospace Applications

Dr Andrew Lewis has an MA in Mathematics from Oxford University, an MSc in Applicable Mathematics from Cranfield Institute of Technology and a PhD in Aeronautics from Imperial College. He worked for British Aerospace Dynamics Ltd from 1979 to 1991 and the University of Hertfordshire from 1991 to 2009. He was Chief Structural Engineer for MBDA Missile Systems from 2009 to 2011 before rejoining the University of Hertfordshire where he is currently the Head of the Aeronautics and Space division. He has maintained close ties with British Aerospace and MBDA throughout all his time at the University of Hertfordshire and his research interests include non-linear aeroelasticity, structural dynamics including methods of loads prediction to extend the life of aerospace structures, and computational fluid dynamics.

Low-frequency vibrations of multi-component high-contrast elastic structures

Danila Prikazchikov has received his PhD from the University of Salford, UK. After working for several years as an Associate Professor at Bau-

man State Technical University, Moscow, he moved to Keele University, UK in 2013, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He has co-

authored over 50 publications, including a recent substantial volume in “Advances in Applied Mechanics”. His awards and honours include

two Russian Presidential Fellowships for Young Scientists, along with visiting positions at City University of Hong-Kong and Anadolu Universi-

ty, Turkey. His research interests lie in the area of solid and structural mechanics, including multi-scale modelling, nano- and metamaterials,

waves and vibrations, and perturbation techniques.

Constitutive modeling of magneto-active polymers with anisotropy

Krishnendu Haldar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bom-

bay, India. Before joining at IIT-B, he was a postdoc researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, France and TU Dortmund, Germany. Krishnendu

graduated from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M, USA. His research interests are material modeling and computa-

tions for smart/multi-functional materials, soft materials, and biomechanics.

Dr. Bao Rui is a Full Professor in structural integrity and durability in Solid Mechanics. Her teaching duties include under-graduate and graduate courses in material mechanics, fatigue reliability and structural fatigue life evaluation methods, and providing supervision to MSc and Ph.D students. Her research work is focused on the scientific problems, experimental methods and engineering applications in the field of fatigue fracture in conventional fabricated and additive manufactured aircraft metallic materials and integral components under complex service loading spectra and environments, most of which were founded by NSFC and Clients such as COMAC and AVIC.

Fatigue crack growth in the aluminium alloy and additive manufactured Titanium alloy with the interaction of fatigue loading and the material texture

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Sondipan Adhikari, University of Swansea, UK

Matthieu Gresil, University of Manchester, UK

Stochastic dynamic response analysis of flexible structural systems

Graphene—The new Materials for multi functional Composites

Dr. Matthieu Gresil joined the School of Materials in February 2014 as Lecturer in Composite Materials. He obtained his BSc degree in Physics (University of Nantes, France) and MSc degree in Physics option Matter and Materials (University of Nantes, France). He completed his PhD from Ecole Normale Superieure at Cachan, France in 2009 in collaboration with DCNS (French Navy) on the integration of functions (structural health monitoring and electromagnetic shielding) in composite materials. Then, he joined the University of South Carolina as Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2010-2014) and conducted research on SHM using multi-physics finite element to study guided wave propagation in composite and metallic structures.His research focuses on advanced nanocomposites to enhance thermo-electro-mechanical properties and to develop multifunctional (structural health monitoring, self-healing) composite materials. Moreover, over the past year, he developed a new area of research based on 2D materials based polymer, and Bio-inspired materials to develop innovative morphing composites.

Prof Adhikari is the chair of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering of Swansea University. He was a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder from the Royal Society. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Cambridge (in Trinity College). He was an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellow and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2007). He was a lecturer at the Bristol University and a Junior Research Fellow in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was a visiting Professor at the Carleton University, University of Johannesburg, University of Paris (east), UT Austin and a visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

His research areas are multidisciplinary in nature and include uncertainty quantification in dynamic systems, computational nanome-chanics, dynamics of complex systems, inverse problems for linear and non-linear dynamics and vibration energy harvesting. He has published four books, more than 280 international journal papers and 180 conference papers in these areas (h-index 54). Professor Adhikari is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and member of the AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Technical Committee (NDA-TC). He is a member of the editorial board of

Noël Challamel , University of South Brittany UBS ,France

Lattice, scale effects and nonlocal structural mechanics

Noël Challamel is Professor at University of South Brittany (Université de Bretagne Sud – Lorient, France). He is the head of a research team in Civil Engineering and Multiscale Mechanics. His research at University of South Brittany mainly concerns civil engineering, theoretical and applied mechanics problems, with a particular emphasis on scale effects, structural mechanics, stability, vibrations and material modeling (Continuum Damage Mechanics and Plasticity). He is the coauthor of three books in the field of mechanics and civil engineering. He has published over a hundred papers in high standard journals. He is often con-sulted as a referee in more than 50 international journals in Civil Engineering, Physics or Mechanics. He is member of the edito-rial board of 11 international journals, and is associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, one of the leading jour-nals published by the American Society of Civil Engineering. He is also editor and head of the collection « Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering » published by ISTE Wiley.

Jian Wang, Kingston University, UK

Feasibility study of drag reduction and anti icing inspired by bio-mimic

Jian Wang is the Professor of Aircraft Technology and research & enterprise director in the school of Engineering and Environ-ment. He studied solid mechanics at the National University of Defence Technology, China, graduating in 1982 and, after work-ing in industry in China for nearly 10 years, came to the UK in 1993. He completed his PhD in 1998 at Cardiff University, where he worked as a research associate before moving to Cambridge University in a similar role. He was then a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast before joining Kingston University In September 2009.

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About Croydon Croydon has excellent road, rail and air connections providing first class transport links to London, the UK

and overseas. Bus services are extensive. Croydon also has a Tramlink, a 28 kilometre environmentally

friendly light rail service which links with New Addington, Beckenham, Elmers End and Wimbledon. Croy-

don has over 2,600 acres of parkland and open spaces. The rich inheritance comprises over 120 parks and

nature reserves offering the widest possible range of sports and leisure. The surrounding fields and woods

of the North Downs provide a natural framework around the borough. Croydon is home to Crystal Palace

football club, who play at Selhurst Park. The council provides a very wide range of sports and recreational

activities including four swimming pools. The Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is one of the country's

premier athletics stadia. Croydon has two full championship golf courses, seven 8 hole courses, pitch and

putt courses and driving ranges. Sailing and canoeing are available at South Norwood Lake. Croydon en-

joys 20km of the London Loop and 34km of bridleway for horse riding and cycling.

Getting Here

Airport Connections

Croydon is well connected globally by all the London Airport through Emirates, KLM, Air France, Easyjet,

Ryanair and many more. The airports are linked to Croydon by the Overground, Tram and the London Bus

Network . There are direct service connections to London Gatwick and London Luton airports. Journey

times from East Croydon to London Gatwick airport range from 15 to 36 minutes, with an average of 13

services per hour during the day. The journey time from East Croydon to London Luton airport is approxi-

mately 66 minutes, with an average of 4 services per hour during the day. There are no direct train services

to London Heathrow airport, however Bus No X26 connects Heathrow airport to Croydon.

Train Connections

Fast trains run into the centre of London terminating at Victoria, London Bridge or City Thameslink stations

in about 15-20 minutes. The train service for London Luton airport also stops at London St Pancras

(average journey time approximately 40 minutes), providing interconnections for Eurostar services.

Tram Connections

Trams at the moment have destinations at Beckenham, Wimbledon, Elmers End and New Addington with

all lines traveling through Croydon on the Croydon Loop. It can also be used to reach the Underground in

Wimbledon.

Accommodation Below are a list of hotels close to the conference venue

Jury's Inn From £48

Croydon Park Hotel From £60

The Lansdowne Hotel From £60

Travelodge Croydon Central From £43

Hampton by Hilton Croydon From £60

Premier Inn From £60

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Sponsorship & Exhibition Space

Sponsorship

Cost £1500 + VAT

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• 2 Free Delegate Registration

• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo in the Book of Abstracts

• Company advert in the Book of Abstract (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)

Exhibition

Cost £1200 + VAT

Package Includes:

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• 1 Display table (1800 x 1200 mm) in Breakout Area

• Display material: Published material, Structural component

• Display Banners

Sponsorship Package + Exhibition Package

Cost £2100 + VAT

• 2 Free Delegate Registrations

• 1 Display Table (1800 x 1200 mm) in Breakout Area

• Display Material: Published Material, Structural Component

• Display Banners

• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo & Advert in the Book of Abstracts (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)