
Participation of the SMS data in the 18th Virtual Pleanary World Session of the RDA: VP18 – November 2021
The SMS project participates in the DATANOOS platform for open access
The SMS project participates in the DATANOOS platform for open access of part of the project’s data thanks to the CALMIP dataverse CALLISTO https://callisto.calmip.univ-toulouse.fr/ and provided a specific Ontology for FAIR sharing, intteroperability and Reuse of the project’s data as well as a datapaper, https://doi.org/10.48531/JBRU.CALMIP/19XGRY in the context of the UC1 of DATANOOS: https://datanoos.univ-toulouse.fr/en/use-case-enhanced-and-intelligent-aerodynamic-modeling :
A video is presented in the VP18 (Virtual Plenary) of the Rsearch Data Alliance, RDA on 9 November 2021: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-virtual-plenary-18,
Press article AeroBuzz
AeroBuzz devoted a press article to present the morphing studies carried out by the SMS project and presented in the Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace the 30th of March 2021 by Dr. Marianna Braza (Link)

Success Stories devoted by the PRACE Supercomputing Initiative concerning the High-Fidelity simulations carried out by the SMS project
Final SMS meeting 7 May 2020

The 30th month meeting
The 30th month SMS meeting was organized by our partner : Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) in 27 – 29 November 2019.
Experimental tests will be carried out for the Large-Scale prototype wing-flap in different configurations : Clean, take-off and landing at a subsonic speed.
Mention of the SMS results for the 80th anniversary of CNRS

The European Researchers’ Night (La Nuit européenne des Chercheurs)-Toulouse
The SMS project has participated in the stand of INPT/CNRS/IMFT/LAPLACE Laboratories at the European Researchers’ Night (Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs) on 27th September 2019 at the “Quai des Savoirs”, in Toulouse, France. In the devotes stand were presented our work and shown to a large people’s audience concerning the bio-inspired electroactive morphing of wings .
Science is Wonderful, Brussels 25-26/09 2019
The SMS project’s stand invited in the EU Exhibition “Science is Wonderful”, Brussels 25-26/09 2019 at the European Research and Innovation days.

Yannick Bmegaptche-Tekap and Jean-Baptise Tô, PhD students of the SMS project explain the morphing to a young visitor
Prace (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) allocation project
The SMS project’s numerical simulations received from the PRACE allocation project N°2017174208 of the European Commission 15 million CPU hours on the CEA – TGCC HPC Infrastructure from April 2018 until April 2019. Part of the SMS simulations are carried out in the French Supercomputing Centres CINES, IDRIS and CALMIP

Please see the article dedicated to the SMS project by ec.europa.eu/research
Time-Resolved PIV experimental results carried out for the SMS morphing wing in camber control, AIAA AVIATION FORUM, Dallas 17-21 June 2019
Morphing A320 SMS Prototype of chord 0,7 m by Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) cambering the rear wing’s length of 30% of its chord, downwords and upwords at (-1.5, +1.5)% of the chord’s length at take-off and landing speeds.
SMS project’s technical session on 17 June 2019 in the AIAA Aviation Forum, Dallas 17-21 June, 2019
Participation of the SMS project in Aerodays, Bucharest 27-30 May 2019
Best communication award 2018 in the 53th International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics
The Letter N°39 of the 3AF Association
Actuation by means of Shape memory Alloys on the Large-Scale SMS prototype (INPT).
ESOF – Toulouse Sharing Science Towards new Horizons: 11/07/18 visit at IMFT of the SMS experiments on morphing wings by Mr. Pablo Pérez Illana, Policy and Programme Officer at the European Commission – DG Research & Innovation H3 Aviation unit
Experimental results in the wind tunnel S4 IMFT for the morphing case at 220Hz frequency of the reduced scale A320 prototype
EuroScience Open Forum – ESOF 2018 Toulouse
Transonic speed simulations around a morphing A320 wing
ILA 2018 SMS
Participation of the SMS project at the ILA – Innovation Leadership in Aerospace in Berlin on 25-29 April 2018 in the stand of the European Commission and presentation of the project by Marianna Braza in the workshop of disruptive wing configurations on 27/04/18 invited by INEA.

7th transport research arena TRA 2018
Within the frame of the 7th Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2018, which took place in Vienna (Austria) from 16^th to 19^th April 2018, the SMS project has been selected to take part in one of the stands of this prestigious Exhibition. The EC stand, after a tight selection, hosts in total 24 EU-funded projects for this showcase. Only five Aviation EU projects have been selected (4 Horizon 2020 and 1 CEF/SESAR projects) and among them the SMS project. It is a high honour for the SMS project to participate in this event.
The SMS project participates in the Exhibition about raptors taking place in the Museum of Natural History of Toulouse : (“Les rapaces”) from 2/10/17 to 30/04/18
A stand has been reserved to show the morphing technology and bioinspiration. Our reduced scale prototype is presented during the next 06 months in the Museum, from 02 October 2017 to 30 April 2018.
The SMS project participates in the Exhibition about The Complex Systems taking place in the Museum of Natural History of Toulouse in 04/02/2018.
The SMS project has participated in the stand at the Museum of Natural History of Toulouse. The team presented the bio-inspired electroactive morphing of wings and experimental reduced scale prototype during the 04 February 2018.
The Aeroscopia Museum
The SMS project has participated in the stand at the Aeroscopia Museum under the wings of the Concorde. Our team presented the bio-inspired electroactive morphing of wings during the day of science on 15 October 2017
The day of science (la fête de la science)
The national day of science in France, The laboratory IMFT opened the doors to a large people’s audience showing them the studies that carried and visits of wind tunnels and specially the bio-inspired electroactive morphing of wings in the SMS project on 15 October 2017.
The researchers night (la nuit des chercheurs)
The SMS project has participated in the stand of INPT/CNRS/IMFT/LAPLACE Laboratories at the European Researchers’ Night (Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs) on 29th September 2017 at the “Quai des Savoirs”, in Toulouse, France. In the devotes stand were presented our work and shown to a large people’s audience concerning the bio-inspired electroactive morphing of wings .
Objective
The Smart Morphing & Sensing (SMS) project is a multi-disciplinary upstream project that employs intelligent electro-active actuators that will modify the lifting structure of an aircraft and to obtain the optimum shape with respect to the aerodynamic performance (high lift & low drag). This will be accomplished using a new generation of fiber optics based sensors allowing distributed pressure measurements and in-situ real-time optimisation of the aerodynamic characteristics. This will allow to attenuation of flow separation and nuisance instabilities such as aileron flutter and also to reduce trailing-edge noise and other vibration sources in flight, coming from interactions between wing and fuselage and engine or from critical meteorological phenomena as gusts, having major impact on safety. The SMS project associates the following methods that will be coupled in a multi-disciplinary environment :
- Advanced integrated aeroelastic design using High-Fidelity CFDSM (Computational Fluid Dynamics-Structural Mechanics)
- Advanced distributed sensing using a new generation of high-fidelity fiber optics sensors
- Advanced experimental techniques to provide data together with the high-fidelity simulations for the iterative feedback of the controller design to be used for the optimisation of the morphing flap of an A320 type wing. These experimental techniques will also be used as a basis for the validation of both the novel actuation and sensing systems via wind tunnel tests at subsonic (take-off and landing) and transonic (cruise) speeds.
- Controller Design by appropriate Flight Control Commands (FCC), to actuate the electro-active materials properties in order to enable a real-time in-situ optimisation of the final prototypes in reduced scale and large scale.
- The SMS project is unique thanks to its strong multidisciplinary character and degree of innovation.