ISMA2010 International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, 20-22 September, 2010

Objectives

The 2010 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering will be held from 20 till 22 September in Leuven, Belgium. It is the 24th international conference in a series of annual courses and biennial conferences on structural dynamics, modal analysis and noise and vibration engineering, organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. This year's edition will be organised in conjunction with the 3rd edition of the International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics - USD2010. A single registration will grant access to both conferences.

The ISMA conference provides a forum for engineers, researchers and other professionals active in the field of modelling, analysing, testing and improving the noise and vibration characteristics of mechanical systems and civil structures. The conference combines expertise in the noise and vibration fields by stressing common measurement, modelling, analysis and control technologies. The meeting will provide a further impetus to the cross fertilisation of ideas in both areas.

The conference program will include keynote lectures, tutorials and invited and contributed papers in specialised areas of noise and vibration engineering and structural dynamics. The focus of the conference is on experimental and numerical methods, with special attention to recent applications in vehicle and civil engineering. Fields with a strong interaction between noise and vibration behaviour will be stressed. Modal analysis and structural dynamic testing remains one of the backbones of the conference, and herein we would like to emphasize limiting factors such as product and test uncertainty as well as applications in the field of smart monitoring and damage assessment.

Conference topics

Papers are solicited on research results and engineering applications in the following areas:

• Active noise and vibration control
• Aeroacoustics and flow induced noise and vibrations
• Damage detection and condition monitoring
• Dynamics of civil structures
• Dynamics of lightweight structures
• Damping
• Durability testing - vibration control
• Instrumentation
• Measurement techniques - signal processing
• Medium and high frequency techniques
• Modal testing and FRF estimation
• Model correlation and updating
• Multibody dynamics
• Noise control engineering
• Non-linearities: identification and modelling
• Operational modal analysis
• Parameter estimation
• Railway dynamics and ground vibration
• Rotating machinery
• Sound quality engineering
• Smart dynamic structures
• Source localization and transfer path analysis
• Substructuring and coupling
• Time-frequency analysis techniques
• Uncertainties in structural dynamics and acoustics
• Vehicle dynamics
• Vehicle noise and vibration (NVH)
• Vibro-acoustics

Tentative conference programme

The conference programme will include two keynote lectures and contributed papers in specialised areas of noise and vibration engineering and structural dynamics.
The focus of the conference is on experimental and numerical methods, with special attention to recent applications in vehicle and civil engineering. Fields with a strong interaction between noise and vibration behaviour will be stressed.

The first keynote lecture "Silent trains for the future, an industrial approach for low noise design" will be given by Mrs. Siv Leth, Center of Competence Acoustics and Vibration, Bombardier Transportation, Sweden. The second keynote lecture "Signal Decomposition for Symptom Enhancement : A journey from Fourier analysis through time/frequency analysis to blind source separation" will be given by Prof. Bob Randall, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia.

The tentative ISMA2010-USD2010 conference programme can be found here.

Schedule

• 1 October, 2009: Start of online abstract submission.
• 15 January, 2010: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
• 15 March, 2010: Authors are notified regarding acceptance of their contribution, and receive instructions concerning the format of the paper.
• 1 June, 2010: Deadline for paper submission (in digital format).
• 20-22 September, 2010: ISMA2010 conference.

Manuscript preparation instructions

Information concerning manuscript preparation can be found on the following page: Manuscript preparation instructions

Online paper submission has been closed. For questions regarding the papers or the proceedings please contact papers(@)isma-isaac.be.

MSSP special issue

In addition to the regular ISMA2010 proceedings, a special issue of the MSSP - Mechanical Systems and Signal processing - journal will be published at the occasion of the ISMA2010 conference.

Paper submission for the MSSP special issue has been closed on 15 September, 2009. A joint committee of members of the MSSP Editorial board and of the ISMA Scientific Committee reviews the submitted full papers.

Technical exhibition

Parallel to the ISMA 2010 conference, an exhibition of related equipment (FFT-analysers, data acquisition systems, transducers, software packages, etc.) will be organised, to give the conference attendants the chance to face new products.

The exhibition will take place in the entrance hall of the 'college De Valk', where the conference will be held. It will be opened on: Monday 20 September (13h-18.25h), on Tuesday 21 September (8.50h-18.35h) and on Wednesday 22 September (8.50h-13h).

Click here for a list of exhibitors.

Registration

A single registration will grant access to both the ISMA2010 and the USD2010 conference and includes full conference proceedings, refreshments and conference reception:

If you present one or more papers, please make sure you know the paper-ID('s). You can find them in the list of accepted papers.

We only accept creditcard payment (VISA and Mastercard).

After you have filled in your registration data, you will be guided to a secure server to complete the payment. Please have your creditcard details ready.

Click here to register.

Conference venue

The conference will be held on the city campus of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, located in the old centre of Leuven.

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, founded in 1425, is one of the oldest and most famous universities of the European continent. The historic and artistic past is present everywhere in this charming city which is the true capital of Brabant. The town hall, the beguinage, the numerous churches, monasteries, convents and university colleges are evidence of a glorious past and lend the town a medieval character. Leuven is located in the centre of Belgium only 30km from Brussels and 20km from Brussels National Airport.

For more information please visit the location website.

Accomodation

A limited number of rooms is available at the following hotels. Please arrange hotel reservations yourself before 1 August 2010.

Visa

If you doubt whether you need a visa, you can check it here. If you are from a European Country included in the Schengen Visa only your national identity card or your passport is needed. The Schengen countries are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
There are countries that don't require a visa if the person will stay less than 3 months.
If required, it is recommended that you apply for a visa as soon as possible (approximately 2 months before the conference starts). We can provide the invitation letter as long as you have already registered, paid and submitted your paper. Please note that this letter does not guarantee that you receive a visa.

Organising committee

K.U.Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA)

P. Sas, Conference Chairman,
B. Bergen, E. Deckers, W. Desmet, W. Heylen, W. Jacobs, L. Notré, J. Swevers, D. Vandepitte, B. Van Hooreweder, K. Vergote

Conference secretary

Mrs. L. Notré,
K.U.Leuven, PMA Division (Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation)
Celestijnenlaan 300B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
K.U.Leuven box 02420 - AFD PMA
Tel: (+32) 16 32 24 82,
Fax: (+32) 16 32 29 87
E-mail: lieve.notre(@)mech.kuleuven.be

Scientific committee