AEROSTRUCTURES

Aerostructures play a crucial role in aerospace research, contributing to advancements in aerodynamics, materials science, and structural engineering. Understanding and optimizing aerostructures is essential for improving aircraft performance, fuel efficiency, and safety. Stringent cost effective, efficient, reliable and certified structural aerospace design requires researchers from academia and industry to work together collectively and with coherence. Aerostructures track of IBCAST provides an invaluable platform for knowledge exchange, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation across diverse fields, making them pivotal in advancing research and fostering professional growth by bridging the gaps between research community and aerospace industry. This forum encompass numerous challenges faced by the aerospace industry during the design, development and testing phases and which can only be met by the use of state of the art computational tools, like finite element method, boundry element method and smooth particle hydrodynamics coupled with powerful computing hardware.

For the following described fields in aerostructures track of IBCAST which are not limited to the defined ones; we together, embark on a journey of discovery with a shared commitment to shape the aerostructures future:

• Additive and Innovative Manufacturing Techniques
• Advanced Materials & Composites for Aerostructures
• Aerospace Vehicle Airframe Design, Development, Integration and Qualification
• Supersonic and Hypersonic Propulsion Design
• Structural Integrity and Maintenance
• Ground Support Equipment Design, Analysis and Testing
• Modeling & Simulation of Manufacturing Processes
• FSI and Aerothermal Challenges & Solutions
• Multi-disciplinary Optimization for Light Weight Structures
• Cutting-Edge FEA Techniques
• Static & Dynamic Structural Testing/Analysis
• Adaptive Structures
• Bio-inspired Morphing