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 September 20th till 22nd 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

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.

Abstract submission

Potential contributors are requested to submit an abstract (40 lines) before 15 January, 2010. The scientific committee will decide upon the selection of the papers. If the abstract is selected, the author will be asked to submit a paper (max. 15 pages), suitable for publication in the conference proceedings.

To submit an abstract, click below. After you have created an account, you will be guided through the process. If you encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Submit an abstract

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 (abstract submission for the regular ISMA2010 proceedings remains open until 15 January, 2010). A joint committee of members of the MSSP Editorial board and of the ISMA Scientific Committee will review the submitted full papers, with three possible outcomes:

1. The paper is selected as candidate paper for the MSSP special issue. The submitted paper will be included ‘as is’ in the Conference Proceedings. Next to the paper review comments of the selection committee, additional review comments from peers, selected by the MSSP editorial board, will be collected and the outcome will be communicated to the authors. In the event that the full review process converges to an accepted manuscript by 15 January, the paper will be included in the special issue and a note will be added to the initially submitted paper, published in the Proceedings, notifying that a journal version will be published in MSSP. If convergence to an accepted manuscript is reached later, the manuscript will be included in a later regular volume of MSSP.
    
2. The paper is accepted as ISMA Conference paper and will be included ‘as is’ in the Conference Proceedings, but is not selected as special issue candidate paper.
    
3. The submitted paper cannot be accepted for the ISMA Proceedings nor for the MSSP special issue.
    

Besides fitting the scope of the journal and meeting the high-quality standards of the journal, an additional evaluation criterion will be the likeliness of making it into the eventual special issue, given the tight time schedule and based on the extent of the first review comments of the MSSP/ISMA selection committee.

In order to avoid any confusion, please consider the MSSP special issue as an additional track. We expect and warmly invite the majority of ISMA participants to subscribe to the regular ISMA2010 conference paper call with abstract submission deadline of 15 January, 2010 and subsequent full paper submission deadline of 1 June, 2010.

Registration

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

Registration will be available from 15 May, 2010.

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.

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