Adaptive civil engineering structures.

In order to meet the requirements of tomorrow’s world, engineers and architects must design extremely efficient structures. The overarching target is to minimize demand of resources as well as CO2 emissions during the entire life cycle. Making engineering structures adaptive is a promising approach to reach that target. One approach to adaptive structures is to noticeably increase the load carrying efficiency of structures by the employment of sensors, actuators and control units. Hence, the active manipulation of the static and dynamic structural response (i.e., forces, deformations and vibrations) enables dramatic mass reduction of engineering structures while improving their performance. Additionally, control and actuation allow adjustment to
evolving requirements occurring during lifetime of a building.

This mini-symposium focuses on the adaptivity of structures in civil engineering and on load carrying structures in general. It is devoted to new approaches in the computational design, analysis and optimization of
such structures including (but not limited to): modelling and simulation; form finding and optimization; criteria for the evaluation of adaptive engineering structures; optimal strategies for sensor and actuator placement; active and passive control strategies; design of compliant structures and mechanisms; design and analysis of deployable structures.