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The ASME 2013 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems will be held September 16-18, 2013 in Snowbird, Utah.

Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems by definition are intelligent, flexible systems that have sentience and responsiveness to ever changing environments. The field has rapidly matured due to synergistic interdisciplinary efforts across sectors of universities, government and industry. To continue the high impact growth of this field and lead it into the future, the purpose of this conference is to assemble world experts across engineering and scientific disciplines (mechanical, aerospace, electrical, materials, and civil engineering, biology, physics chemistry, etc.) to actively discuss the latest breakthroughs in smart materials, the cutting edge in adaptive structure applications and the recent advances in both new device technologies and basic engineering research exploration.

To meet this goal, the conference is divided into symposia broadly ranging from basic research to applied technological design and development to industrial and governmental integrated system and application demonstrations. The symposia specifically are:

• SYMP 1 Development and Characterization of Multifunctional Materials
• SYMP 2 Mechanics & Behavior of Active Materials
• SYMP 3 Modeling, Simulation and Control of Adaptive Systems
• SYMP 4 Integrated System Design and Implementation
• SYMP 5 Structural Health Monitoring
• SYMP 6 Bioinspired Smart Materials and Systems
• SYMP 7 Energy Harvesting

Please submit your abstract to SMASIS2013 by March 15, 2013