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Smart Materials and Structures

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Scope

Frequency: 12 issues per year.

Subject coverage

Technical areas concerned with smart materials and structures:

 

  • Materials science: composites, ceramics, processing science, interface science, sensor/actuator materials, chiral materials, conducting and chiral polymers, electrochromic materials, liquid crystals, molecular-level smart materials, biomaterials.
  • Sensing and actuation: electromagnetic, acoustic, chemical and mechanical sensing and actuation, single-measurand sensors, multiplexed multimeasurand distributed sensors and actuators, sensor/actuator signal processing, compatibility of sensors and actuators with conventional and advanced materials, smart sensors for materials and composites processing.
  • Optics and electromagnetics: optical fibre technology, active and adaptive optical systems and components, tunable high-dielectric phase shifters, tunable surface control.
  • Structures: smart skins for drag and turbulence control, other applications in aerospace/hydrospace structures, civil infrastructures, transportation vehicles, manufacturing equipment, repairability and maintainability.
  • Control: structural acoustic control, distributed control, analogue and digital feedback control, real-time implementation, adaptive structure stability, damage implications for structural control.
  • Information processing: neural networks, data processing, data visualization and reliability.

Fast Track Communications

(Not normally more than 5400 words* or 6 journal pages.) These articles should be short, urgent announcements reporting new and timely developments in the field. They should be of importance to readers of Smart Materials and Structures and are not expected to meet any requirement of 'general interest'. They are processed quickly and made freely available to readers of the electronic journal. They are published at the front of the journal. To facilitate a fast review process authors must keep their articles short and provide a written justification to the Editors explaining how their article meets the criteria of a Fast Track Communication and why it should benefit from accelerated publication.

Research Papers

Reports of original research work; not normally more than 9000 words* (10 journal pages).

Technical Notes

(Not normally more than 7200 words* or 8 journal pages.) These are technical communications containing material typically insufficient for publication as a full scientific article but revealing new technical procedures. A Technical Note should be sufficiently detailed and in-depth to further the technical know-how of the community and help the development of novel devices.

Topical Reviews

A review article should discuss the current state of research in a selected field, and also include a general overview and an introduction with enough basic information to make the article interesting and informative for non-specialists. These are intended to summarize accepted practice and report on recent progress. They do not have to be fully comprehensive and should be about 12 000-18 000 words long*. Such articles are generally commissioned by the Editorial Board.

 

*NB: Allow approximately 200 words from the maximum word limit of any article type for each figure, graph or table.


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