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3rd NASA/ARO/ASCE Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration Workshop
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Advance Materials, Structures and Mechanics – New Advances in the 21st Century
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Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Response of Aerospace Structures
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Exploration and Utilization of Extraterrestrial Bodies
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Intelligent Sensors and Actuators
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TENTATIVE Program-At-A-Glance
The 11th Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference -
Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments
(EARTH & SPACE 2008)
March 3-5, 2008
Long Beach, CA
Saturday, March 1, 2008 – Committee Meetings
8:00 am – 6:00 pm Committee Meetings
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – Registration Opens
8:00 am – 8:00 pm Committee Meetings
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibits Installation
11:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration
4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Student Robotics Competition Team Technical Presentation/Mtg & Instructions
Monday, March 3, 2008 – Conference Begins
7:00 am – 6:30 pm Registration
7:00 am – 7:45 am Authors’ Breakfast/Speaker Breakfast
7:00 am – 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room
8:00 am – 10:00 am Plenary Session, Welcome & Opening Keynotes
Keynote Speakers: Jerry Sanders, Director, ISRU Project, NASA/JSC & Dr. S.
Pete Worden, Center Director, NASA Ames Research Center
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Student Robotics Competition
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Active Vibration Control Student Design Competition (System Identification)
10:00 am – 10:30 am Networking Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall
10:00 am – 8:00 pm Exhibits Open
10:30 am – 8:00 pm Technical Poster Session & Student Poster Session
10:30 am – 12:00 noon 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch On Own
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Networking Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm Committee Meetings
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Ice Breaker Reception in Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
7:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration
7:00 am – 7:45 am Authors’ Breakfast/Speaker Breakfast Buffet
7:00 am – 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room
8:30 am – 10:00 am Plenary Session, Keynote Lectures
Keynote Speakers: "Is Innovation in Government an Oxymoron?” - Dr. Alok
Das, Senior Scientist for Design Innovation, Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio & “NASA Engineering and Safety
Center Composite Crew Module Project” - Mike Kirsch, NESC Principal Engineer
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Student Robotics Competition
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Active Vibration Control Student Design Competition (System Identification)
10:00 am – 10:30 am Networking Beverage Break In Exhibit Hall
10:00 am – 3:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open
10:30 am – 12:00 noon 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch On Own
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Networking Beverage Break In Exhibit Hall
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm ASD Awards Banquet & Special Lecture
Keynote Speaker: Matt Melis, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – Conference Concludes
7:00 am – 3:30 pm Registration
7:00 am – 7:45 am Authors’ Breakfast/Speaker Breakfast Buffet
7:00 am – 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room
8:30 am – 10:00 am Plenary Session, Keynote Lecture
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Active Vibration Control Student Design Competition (System Identification)
10:00 am – 10:30 am Networking Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall
10:00 am – 3:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open
10:30 am – 12:00 noon 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch On Own
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Networking Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 7 Concurrent Sessions (maximum of 5 papers/session)
Symposium Descriptions
3rd NASA/ARO/ASCE Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration Workshop
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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. To begin using these resoureces, we must understand the extraterrestrial regoliths, predict the mechanics of granular geomaterials in lunar and Martian environments, and design technology capable of reliably controlling the various complex fluid flow regimes of these materials. We must land on the regolith, drive on it, excavate it, process it, and build with it.
Designing technology to work with the Martian or lunar regolith is challenging for several reasons. First, we must increase our understanding of the physics and mechanics of extraterrestrial regoliths. Second, predicting soil mechanics is difficult because there is no fundamental law with the pedigree of the Navier-Stokes equation to predict how any granular material will behave, and we must make progress in modeling methods to enable the design of hardware to operate in environments where it cannot be easily tested. Third, the mechanics of granular materials present a spectrum of unique technological challenges due to their self- organizing, fragile, and non-homogeneous flow behaviors.
As a result, scientists and engineers from a wide variety of interrelated disciplines are actively using new theoretical, experimental and modeling techniques to understand these aspects of granular and soil physics and to apply their new advances into improved granular material technology. These disciplines include civil engineering (especially geotechnical), mechanical engineering, mining and excavation, granular physics, chemical engineering, geology, planetary science, terrestrial soil science, and cold regions / permafrost science, among others.
The sessions in this workshop will address these topics:
- Lunar and Martian Dust
- Properties of Lunar Soil Particles
- Lunar and Martian Simulants
- Geotechnical Engineering for Planetary Regoliths
- Excavation Technology
- Computer Modeling of Lunar and Martian Soil
- Granular Flow in Lunar and Martian Conditions
- Rocket Exhaust Interactions with the Regolith
Advance Materials, Structures and Mechanics – New Advances in the 21st Century
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The symposium on Advanced Materials, Structures and Mechanics – New Advances in the 21st Century will present a broad range of topics related to advanced materials, structures and mechanics, particularly their recent advances and developments. A total of approximately 80 papers in 15 sessions will be presented, and they include interesting topics from composites application primarily focusing on NASA Crew Module Project, to computational mechanics including new modeling and simulation tools, to mechanics of advanced materials developing new numerical, experimental and analytical techniques for new and advanced materials, to structural and dam engineering researching existing challenges in conventional fields, to advanced concrete materials research exploring high performance concrete and evaluating long term performance and durability, to structural health monitoring inventing new algorithms and testing viable techniques, finally to emerging materials and structures such as smart liquids and nanoporous materials. Significant emphases have been put forth in composite crew construction, development of structural monitoring techniques and emerging materials. The presenters in the symposium are primarily from academia consisting of researchers from the US, Canada, China, and India, and governmental agencies, including NASA and Air Force.
Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Response of Aerospace Structures
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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.
Exploration and Utilization of Extraterrestrial Bodies
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The symposium on Exploration and Utilization of Extraterrestrial Bodies will be focused on methodologies, techniques, instruments, concepts and system level designs associated with robotic and human exploration of the Moon, Mars and other planetary bodies. The topics covered will include In Situ Resource Utilization, surface architectures as they pertain to habitats and surface operations and specifically on the Moon, advanced instrumentation, mechanisms and sensors for planetary exploration, techniques for subsurface access and sampling – specifically for drilling and sample preparation, advanced propulsion and power systems, medical issues of space colonization, and remote sensing of the Moon, Mars and Saturn satellites. In addition, there will be two sessions reporting most recent findings and recommendation of the Lunar Architecture Team (LAT). To provide a healthy balance we will also have a session on space commercialization, policy and law. The majority of speakers will represent NASA, academia, Department of Defense, and industry and we will also have a privilege to learn of developments across both oceans – oversees speakers will come from Europe (ESA), Japan (JAXA), Korea, and India. There will be a total of 13 sessions with up to six presentations per session.
Intelligent Sensors and Actuators
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The Dynamics and Controls Committee of Aerospace Division of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) organized a symposium on “Intelligent Sensors and Actuators.”
Symposium topics include: Pizeoceramic-Based Sensors; Fiber Optical Sensors; Shape Memory Alloy Actuators; Controllable Dampers; Structural Vibration Control via Semi-Active Approaches; Structural Vibration Control via Active Approaches; Modeling of Intelligent Structures; Structural Health Monitoring Using Intelligent Sensors; Other Emerging Sensors and Actuators; and much more.
Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards
1-2 best symposium papers and 1-2 best student papers will be selected by the Dynamics and Controls Committee to be awarded Best Paper and Best Student Paper.
All the papers to be included in the proceedings will be peer-reviewed by the Dynamics and Controls Committee, and they will be deposited in the Engineering Index (EI) database.
