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The major themes for the book are intelligent materials; sensing and control of adaptive systems; applications to aerospace engineering. Adaptive Structures for Structural Health Monitoring, Dan Inman (Virginia Tech) Lightweight shape-adaptable airfoils, Flavio Campanile (DLR, Germany) Active and Passive Damping with Piezoelectric Transducers, Andre Preumont (ULB, Belgium) Global Vibration Control through Local Feedback, Steve Elliott (ISVR, Southampton University, UK) Adaptive Aeroelastic Aircraft Structures, Jon Cooper (Manchester University, UK) The Future Role of Smart Structure Systems in Modern Aircraft, Wolfgang Luber (EADS, Germany) Adaptive Aerospace Structures with Smart Technologies A Retrospective and Future View, Christian Boller (Sheffield University, UK) Adaptive Structures in Plants, Julian Vincent (Bath University, UK) Adaptive Structures by Design, Robert L. Clark (Duke University, USA) Negative Stiffness and Negative Poissons Ratio in Materials which Undergo a Phase Transformation, Rod Lakes and T. M. Jaglinski (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Unsymmetric Laminates, Mike Hyer (Virginia Tech) Self Healing Composite Materials, Scott White (University of Illinois)