1st ANCRiSST Workshop (Hawaii, USA) 
Call for papers
The Asia-Pacific Consortium of Centers on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technologies (ASMASST) plans to organize the first annual workshop in Hawaii in the summer of 2003. This newly established consortium which was established in 2002 currently consists of five research institutions: Smart Structures Research Center (SSRC) Tsukuba, JAPAN; Center for Intelligent High-Performance Structures (CIHPS), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CHINA; Smart Infrastructure Technology Center (SISTeC), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA; Building Research Institute, (BRI), Tsukuba, JAPAN; and Smart Structures Technology Laboratory (SSTL), University of Illinois, USA.The purpose of the workshop is to assess the current progress of smart materials and structures technology and to develop synergies among researchers working in various disciplines from differet countries that facilitate joint research projects that are of scope and magnitude such that they cannot be easily carried out by the individual centers or institutions. Additionally, focus will be placed on the integration of research and education with two goals in mind: (i) to better educate the next generation of engineers toward maximizing advantages offerred by smart structures technology, and (ii) to provide continued professional development for practicing engineers. The workshop will consist of keynote lectures, technical presentations, and panel discussions. Technical papers are sought in all areas related to smart materials and smart structures.
2nd ANCRiSST Workshop (Kyungju, Korea) Call for papers
The Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) plans to organize its second annual workshop in Gyeong-ju, Korea in the summer of 2005. This consortium, established in 2002, currently consists of 13 research institutions: Smart Structures Technology Laboratory (SSTL), University of Illinois, USA; Stanford Smart Structure Technologies Consortium (S3T), Stanford University, USA; Center for Small Smart Systems (CSSS), University of Maryland, USA; Research Institute of Instrumentation Frontier Structural Health Monitoring Research Group, AIST, JAPAN; Building Research Institute (BRI), JAPAN; Consortium for Intelligent Structural and Security Systems (CISSS), Ibaraki University, JAPAN; Center for Intelligent High-Performance Structures (CIHPS), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CHINA; Smart & Sustainable Infrastructure Research Center (SSIRC), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China; Intelligent Monitoring and Control Center of Infrastructures (IMCCI), Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Aeronautical Science Key Lab. for Smart Materials and Structures (ASKL), Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China; VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, FINLAND; CONVIB Group, European countries; and Smart Infrastructures Technology Center (SISTeC), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA. The first ANCRiSST workshop was held in Hawaii, USA on 12-14 January, 2004. This year’s conference venue, Gyeong-ju, is an old capital in 1-10 centuries with many tourist attractions. The purpose of the workshop is to assess the current progress of smart materials and structures technology and to develop synergies among researchers in various disciplines from different countries that facilitate joint research projects that are of scope and magnitude such that they cannot be easily carried out by the individual centers. Additionally, focus will be placed on the integration of research and education with two goals in mind: (i) to better educate the next generation of engineers toward maximizing advantages offered by smart structures technology, and (ii) to provide continued professional development for practicing engineers.
3rd ANCRiSST Workshop (Lade Tahoe, USA) http://www.unr.edu/ancrisst2006
The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) will hold its 3rd Annual Workshop in Lake Tahoe, USA on May 29-30, 2006. This consortium was established in 2002 and currently consists of 16 research institutions.
The purpose of the Workshop is to assess the current progress of smart materials and structures technology and to develop synergies among researchers in various disciplines from different countries that will facilitate joint research projects that are of such scope and magnitude that cannot be easily carried out by the individual centers. In addition, focus will be placed on the integration of research and education to: 1) better educate the next generation of engineers toward maximizing advantages offered by smart structures technology, and 2) to provide continued professional development for practicing engineers.
The workshop will consist of keynote lectures, technical presentations, and panel discussions. Technical papers are sought in all areas related to smart materials and smart structures. Contributions of papers from non-ANCRiSST members are also welcome. Topics may include the following areas:
4th ANCRiSST Workshop (Chonqquing & Nanjing, China) http://smsst07.cee.uiuc.edu/
Smart materials and smart structures (SMSS) are destined to be an important part of the incoming technological revolution. The broad but strongly interdisciplinary field of smart structures seeks to apply multifunctional capabilities to existing and new structures. Smart structures and materials are those that can sense external stimuli and then respond to those stimuli by some means in real or near real-time. However, reliability, performance, and life cycle costs are the primary concerns for almost all in-service structures such as transportation systems, civil infrastructures, mechanical and aerospace systems, medical devices, etc. The vision for addressing these concerns is to develop future structures that are capable of self-sensing and monitoring, self-diagnosis and prognosis with intelligence, self-healing and repair, and adaptive response to prevent loss of human life and catastrophe, to minimize maintenance and life-cycle costs, and to prolong service life.
After several years intensive research global-wide, SMSS that have matured well beyond the concept stage are emphasized. The technology readiness level is relatively high, whether it is manifested in a device that enables operation of a larger system or product, or in a complete integrated system. Less mature technologies that are aimed directly toward commercial and industrial applications are also of interest, especially in cases where smart materials and structures point towards an enabling new capability,a dramatic performance enhancement, or a significant cost reduction. Various applications and integrations of smart materials, devices and structures into industrial systems are emerging nowadays, including consumer products, aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, rotorcraft, marine ships, automobiles, land vehicles, power and turbine systems, civil structures, machinery and medical equipment.
It can not be neglected that, in the nowadays research circumstances, international collaborations is the most significant for the advancement of the technologies, it can be seen from the recent achievements obtained in the structural health monitoring (SHM) and the self-adaptive and self-diagnosis structures, even including this forum platform for us. And, the ongoing collaborative research planning and program development efforts in US-Japan, US-China and US-Europe have played key roles in the technologiescommunication and promotion.
There is international recognition by Governments that future economies will be driven by smart information use, smart devices, smart material use, etc. There can be no doubt that SMSS will underpin these futures. The SMSS will contribute significantly to world's science, and thereby help maximize the returns from a knowledge-based economy. The transformative effects of SMSS will bring to us is a harmonic world with safety, reliability, intelligence, convenience and leisure. The SMSS technology will focus onthe future research frontier such as safety and protection of critical civil infrastructures, miniature/implantable/wearable micro devices of autonomous intelligence for public health and security, and the intelligent technologies in wealth and job creation, and the improvement of living environments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
5th ANCRiSST Workshop (Tokyo, Japan) http://www.waseda.jp/sem-anishitani/ancrisst2008workshop/
The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) holds its 4th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technologies (ANCRiSST 2008) at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, during 24-25 June 2008. The consortium of research centers was established in 2002 and currently consists of 16 research institutions.The JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 157th Committee on Structural Response Control hosts this Workshop with the financial support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The purpose of the Workshop is to assess the current progress of smart materials and structures technology and to develop synergies among research projects that cannot be easily carried out by the individual centers. In addition, focus will be placed on the integration of reserch and education to
1) Better educate the next generation of engineers toward maximizing advantages offerd by smart atructures technology
2) To provide continued professional development for practicing engineers.