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General information Team Guest Awards Contact	The Smart Technology Centre (SMART-TECH) operates at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Smart technologies compose a relatively new, dynamically developing, interdisciplinary research field, closely linked to Hi-Tech and encompassing a wide spectrum of engineering applications. The term smart technologies also coincides with another term mechatronics, coming from the combination of mechanics and electronics. The activity of the SMART-TECH Centre is mainly motivated by the issues of safety and integrity of engineering systems with the focus on the following areas: intelligent materials (e.g. Piezo-Electrics, Shape Memory Alloys, Magneto-Rheological Fluids), actuators (devices based on active materials and so-called MEMS: Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems), acoustic-electronic systems for damage detection and identification, sensors and structural observability, control systems, active materials with adaptively controlled microstructures, nano-materials, structural control applications (various types of structures equipped with controlled devices to get a synergetic effect, significantly improving the overall structural performance, e.g. vibration, deformation, stress or shape control), software tools for design of adaptive structures. Examples of challenging SMART-TECH problems are the following: design of safe structures, self-adaptive to unpredictable critical conditions (e.g. earthquake, impact or explosion) by applying adaptively controlled structural fuses, design and optimal location of structural fuses and active materials with adaptively controlled microstructures and high potential of impact energy absorption for adaptive crashworthiness applications, distributed control of intelligent materials for vibration and noise reduction, modelling of intelligent systems and development of efficient software tools for design of smart structures and computer simulation of their response, modelling of nano-materials and development of the corresponding software tools, development of new techniques for damage detection and identification.