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Earth & Space Conference 2008
11th International Conference on
Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments
Sponsored by the ASCE Technical Activities Committee, Aerospace Division

March 3-5, 2008
Renaissance Long Beach Hotel
Long Beach, CaliforniaLong Beach

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The Aerospace Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers invites you to participate in the EARTH AND SPACE 2008 Conference - "Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments" This conference will take place March 3 – 5, 2008 in Long Beach, California, USA.


Experts from a variety of disciplines will gather to discuss exploration, engineering, construction, and operations in challenging environments on the Moon, Planet Earth and Mars, in Space, and on other bodies of the inner Solar System.

The 2008 Earth and Space Conference will be the best source for new insights and strategies in the Aerospace field. You will find a combination of research and applied engineering along with current practices in the industry and space-related business.

 

Designed for those involved with:

  • Research & Development
  • Planning
  • Exploration
  • Applied Engineering & Science
  • Analysis
  • Construction
  • Operations
  • Design
  • Commercialization

….in many areas encompassing Aerospace and Civil Engineering

 

Learn about:

  • Current Industry Practices
  • New Insights & Strategies

Special attractions of this conference will include:

  • The 3rd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials
  • Exhibition of space-related state-of-the-art technology
  • Student Robotics Competition
  • Other exciting space-related events

Symposium topics include, but are not limited to the following:

3rd NASA/ARO/ASCE Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration Workshop:
•             Cratering

•             Granular Flow

•             Lunar and Martian Dust

•             Modeling Issues for Granular Materials

•             Modeling Methodology

•             Properties, Computational

•             Properties, Experimental

•             Structure/Machine/Tool Interaction

This Workshop – a follow up to two very successful Workshops – will offer sessions that focus researchers from a spectrum of disciplines to identify the challenges posed by granular and regolith/soil mechanics and related research needs. These granular materials are the basic in-situ resources offered by extraterrestrial environments and it is imperative that we learn how to use them for Lunar and Martian exploration to succeed.  One of many key questions to be addressed is: What kind of modeling techniques are necessary to describe lunar and Martian soil, both for geotechnical applications and ISRU processing (granular flow) applications.  An example of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is to produce propellant for the return journey from Mars to Earth using carbon and oxygen from the Martian atmosphere and hydrogen from ice excavated beneath the Martian surface. This would make a human-tended Mars mission more economically feasible by avoiding the excessive cost to loft the propellant from the Earth’s surface to transport it to Mars. Most of the relevant in-situ resources of the Moon and Mars are found in the regolith, the loose layer of sand and rocks covering the surface. Developing technology to work with these geomaterials is therefore of paramount importance to human exploration of the solar system.  Other related challenges are the need to excavate beneath the Lunar and Martian surfaces for scientific objectives, to use the regolith to construct habitats and provide radiation shielding, and to control the high speed blast of sand and microscopic grit when rockets land on the surface in the vicinity of other mission-critical hardware

Advance Materials, Structures and Mechanics – New Advances in the 21st Century

Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Response of Aerospace Structures

•             Ballistic Impact, Crash and Hypervelocity Testing of Aerospace Structures

•             Constitutive Models for High Strain Rate Impact Analysis

•             Design and Application of Impact Resistant Aerospace Structures

•             Experimental Determination of High Strain Rate Material Properties

•             Future Needs of Impact Resistant Structures in Space Exploration Related Applications

•             Structural Level Impact Analysis of Aerospace Structures

The symposium on Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Analysis of Aerospace Structures will offer an exciting combination of fundamental studies and practical applications of the subject technology by government and industry.  There will be several papers describing coupon level tests and ballistic impact studies to determine the high strain rate deformation and failure response of aerospace materials and structures.  These papers will focus on fundamental investigations of material properties.  Several constitutive models and finite element techniques developed to analyze the impact response of composite materials, focusing on advanced fiber architectures such as triaxial braids, will be presented.  A number of papers will discuss the development and design of aircraft engine fan cases and fan containment structures composed of composite materials. An additional paper will describe the work in crashworthiness analysis of rotorcraft structures.  In the space area, several papers will describe impact studies of relevance to the design of NASA’s new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.  There will also be a paper describing the impact analysis studies that needed to take place in the context of the last several Space Shuttle missions.  For the analytical papers, a strong emphasis will be given on the use of LS-DYNA, an industry standard transient dynamic finite element code, in impact studies for aerospace structures.  The presenters of the papers in the symposium will represent a number of universities, NASA Glenn and NASA Langley Research Centers, General Electric Aircraft Engines and Boeing.

Dynamics and Systems

Exploration and Utilization of Extraterrestrial Bodies

•             Advanced Chemical Propellant, Power, and Pneumatic Systems for Planetary Missions

•             Future and Proposed Missions

•             In-Situ Instrumentation and Sensors for Extreme Environments

•             In Situ Resource Utilization

•             Lunar/Mars Surface Architectures

•             Methods and Techniques for Subsurface Access and Sample Acquisition

•             Planetary Analogs

•             Planetary Mechanisms Driven by Electroactive Actuation Materials

•             Remote Sensing Instrumentation and Sensors for Extreme Environments

•             Space Commercialization

Intelligent Sensors and Actuators  (http://egr.uh.edu/smsl/conference.html)

•             Controllable Dampers

•             Fiber Optical Sensors

•             Modeling of Intelligent Structures

•             Pizeoceramic Based Sensors

•             Other Emerging Sensors and Actuators

•             Shape Memory Alloy Actuators

•             Structural Vibration Control via Semi-Active Approaches

•             Structural Vibration Control via Active Approaches

•             Structural Health Monitoring Using Intelligent Sensors

Materials and Structures in Harsh Environments

 

Student Robotics Competition and Poster Session Chair