Engineering Computational Technology 2018

This Civil-Comp Conference is organised by Elsevier the link to their site is here. Please see the Elsevier site for abstract submission, registration and uptodate details.

The themes for this conference will include (but are not limited to):

Computational Methods for:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Geomechanics
Computational Geo-Environmental Mechanics
Computational Biomechanics
Computer Modelling and Simulation
Rock Mechanics
Multi-Phase Problems
Multi-Physics Problems
Soil-Structure Interaction
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Biomechanical Engineering
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Stochastic Mechanics
Fluid Transport Simulation and Modelling
Flow Simulation and Modelling
Telematics, Tele-maintenance, Tele-diagnosis
Inverse Problems
Thermal Problems
Automotive Applications
Crash, Impact and Contact: Analysis and Simulation
Geotechnical Problems
Multi-Scale Problems
Nanomechanics
Micromechanics
Mechanics of Granular Materials
Process Simulation
Wave Propagation
Environmental Engineering
Design and Manufacture
Materials Processing
Micro- and Nano- Scale Problems
Multibody Dynamics
Geophysics
Accoustics
Energy Systems
Active and Passive Control
Heat Transfer Problems

Computational Techniques including:

Data Mining
Evolutionary Algorithms
Evolutionary Processes
Computational Methods deriving their inspiration from Nature
Soft Computing Methods
Particle Methods
Meshless Methods
Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks
Numerical and Computational Linear Algebra
Mathematical Modelling
Multi-Scale Modelling
Finite and Boundary Element Method
Adaptive Procedures
Probabilistic Methods
Multiscale modelling

Engineering Modelling, Simulation including Pre- and Post- Processing:

Domain Decomposition and Partitioning
Geometric Modelling
Mesh and Grid Generation
Model Verification
Pre- and Post- Processing
Quantification of Uncertainty in Simulations

Engineering Design, Optimization and Manufacture:

Computer Aided Design & Computer Aided Engineering
Computer Aided Manufacture
CAD/CAM Rapid Prototyping
Optimal Design
Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis

Engineering Modelling, Information Systems, Management and Decision Making including:

Decision Making in Engineering Management
Construction Management and Control
Information Systems
Communications
Project Management

Engineering Applications of Computational Technology including:

Computational Intelligence
Embedded High Performance Computing
Hardware and Software Developments for HPC
Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments
Virtual Prototyping
Visualisation and Graphics
Computational Steering
Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Processing
Use of High Performance Computer Architectures
Supercomputing
Distributed Computing and Networking
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems
Virtual Environments
Virtual Humans
Data Mining

Software Development and Maintenance for Engineering Applications including:

Software Standards and Quality Control
Verification and Validation
Grid Computing
Object Oriented Methods
Solution Procedures for Large Scale Problems
Novel Software Tools and Development Environments
Algorithms for Vectorization and Parallelisation
Software Reliability

Computational Engineering: Education and Training

Course Development
On-line Training Systems

Opening Lecture

The ECT2018 Conference will be opened jointly with the CST2018 Conference with a lecture presented by Professor K.J. Bathe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.

The conference opening lecture will commence at 9am on Tuesday 4th September 2018.

Special Sessions

A number of special sessions will be organised at this Conference. If you wish to participate in a special session please indicate this when you submit your paper proposal. Over the coming months the list of special sessions will gradually grow. Please visit this page regularly to keep up to date.

The list of special sessions is being assembled. Proposals for the organisation of a special session on your specialist topic including six or more papers are welcome.

Proposals for special sessions may be sent to the conference editor via: conf2018 AT civil-comp.com

Special Session ECT2018-1: Statistical Fluctuations and Modeling in Additive Manufacturing,
organised by
Prof. Stefanos Pananikolaou, West Virginia University, United States of America, (stefanos.papanikolaou AT mail.wvu.edu) and
Dr J. Michopoulos, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States of America, (john.michopoulos AT nrl.navy.mil)
Special Session ECT2018-2: Modelling in Polymer Processing,
organised by
Assoc. Prof. O.S. Carneiro and Dr J.M. Nobrega, University of Minho, Portugal, (olgasc AT dep.uminho.pt or mnobrega AT dep.uminho.pt)
Special Session ECT2018-3: Iterative Schemes for Analyzing Nonlinear Problems: Numerical and Dynamical Approach,
organised by
Prof. J.R. Torregrosa and Dr A. Cordero, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, (jrtorre AT mat.upv.es or acordero AT mat.upv.es)
Special Session ECT2018-4: Trustworthiness and Trust Problems in Complex Cyber-Physical-Human Engineering Systems,
organised by
Dr N. Alexandrov and Dr D. Allen, NASA Langley Research Center, United States of America, (n.alexandrov AT nasa.gov and danette.allen AT nasa.gov)
Special Session ECT2018-5: Computational Multiphysics,
organised by
Professor E.C. Aifantis, Polytechnic School of Thessaloniki, Greece, (mom AT mom.gen.auth.gr)
Special Session ECT2018-6: Crash and Impact Computational Mechanics,
organised by
E. Deletombe, ONERA Centre de Lille, France, (eric.deletombe AT onera.fr)
Special Session ECT2018-8: Optimization supporting Sustainable Development,
organised by
Professor C.C. António and Professor C.F. Castro, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, (cantonio AT fe.up.pt and ccastro AT fe.up.pt)
Special Session ECT2018-9: Performance-based design and seismic resilience of critical infrastructure and lifelines,
organised by
Dr A. Sextos, University of Bristol, UK,
(a.sextos AT bristol.ac.uk) and
Dr M. Fragiadakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, (mfrag AT mail.ntua.gr)
Special Session ECT2018-10: Computational Modelling of Industrial Metal Forming Processes,
organised by
Dr K. Davey, The University of Manchester, UK,
(keith.davey AT manchester.ac.uk),
Dr O. Bylya, AFRC, The University of Strathclyde, UK, (olga.bylya AT strath.ac.uk), and
Dr N. Biba, Micas Simulations Limited, UK,
(nick AT qform3d.com)
Special Session ECT2018-11: Uncertainty Quantification and Analysis in Engineering: Precise and Imprecise Probability Approaches,
organised by
Dr A. Sofi, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy, (alba.sofi@unirc.it),
Dr A. Cicirello, University of Oxford, United Kingdom,
(alice.cicirello@eng.ox.ac.uk),
Professor I. Elishakoff, Florida Atlantic University, United States of America, (elishako@fau.edu), and
Professor G. Muscolino, University of Messina, Italy,
(gmuscolino@unime.it)
Special Session ECT2018-12: Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming,
organised by
Dr P. Carlone University of Salerno, Italy, (pcarlone@unisa.it),
Dr G. Andrade-Campos, University of Aveiro, Portugal, (gilac@ua.pt),
Dr S. Thuiller, University of South Brittany, France, (sandrine.thuillier@univ-ubs.fr), and
Dr R.A.F. Valente University of Aveiro, Portugal, (robertt@ua.pt)

Proposals for special sessions may be sent to the conference editor via: conf2018 AT civil-comp.com

Conference Editorial Board

The Conference Editors are Professor B.H.V. Topping (University of Pécs, Hungary and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) and Professor P. Ivanyi, (University of Pécs, Hungary)

The Editorial Board Members for this conference are: Prof. S. Adhikari, UK; Prof. J.F. Aguilar Madeira, Portugal; Prof. E. Aifantis, Greece; Dr H. Akiba, Japan; Prof. H.M. Al-Humaidi, Kuwait; Dr N. Alexandrov, USA; Prof. M. Aliabadi, UK; Dr D. Allen, USA; Prof. J.A.C. Ambrósio, Portugal; Prof L.V. Andersen, Denmark; Dr A. Andrade-Campos, Portugal; Prof. X. Antoine, France; Prof. C.A.C. Antonio, Portugal; Dr S.J. Antony, UK; Prof. H.R. Arabnia, USA; Prof. A. Bahreininejad, Malaysia; Prof. J. Banerjee, UK; Prof. A. Baratta, Italy; Prof D.C. Barton, UK; Prof. K. Bathe, USA; Prof. A. Beltzer, Israel; Prof. A.C. Benim, Germany; Dr N. Biba, UK; Prof. D. Boffi, Italy; Prof. S. Bordas, UK; Prof. R.I. Borja, USA; Prof. H. Borouchaki, France; Prof. B. Brank, Slovenia; Dr M. Bruggi, Italy; Dr O. Bylya, UK; Dr P. Cacciola, UK; Dr F. Cai, Japan; Dr P. Carlone, Italy; Assoc. Prof. O.S. Carneiro, Portugal; Dr S. Casciati, Italy; Dr C.F. Castro, Portugal; Prof. A.H. Chan, Australia; Dr A.P. Chassiakos, Greece; Prof. H.M. Chen, Taiwan; Dr Y. Chen, UK; Prof. F. Chinesta, France; Prof. M.H. Chung, Taiwan; Dr A. Cicirello, UK; Asst. Prof. R. Citarella, Italy; Dr P.G. Coelho, Portugal; Prof. J.R. Corney, UK; Dr V. Couaillier, France; Prof. E. Cueto, Spain; Prof. L. Damkilde, Denmark; Dr K. Davey, UK; Prof. G. Degrande, Belgium; Dipl Ing E. Deletombe, France; Dr M. Dolenc, Slovenia; Prof. I.S. Duff, UK; Dr L. Eca, Portugal; Prof. D. Eyheramendy, France; Dr J.J. Fang, Taiwan; Prof. C.A. Felippa, USA; Dr M. Fragiadakis, Greece; Prof. J.D. Frost, USA; PD Dr J. Geiser, Germany; Dr J. Gomba, Argentina; Prof. T. Grätsch, Germany; Prof. G.A. Gravvanis, Greece; Dr Y.M. Guo, Japan; Prof. W. Habashi, Canada; Dr W. Habchi, Lebanon; Prof. P. Hajela, USA; Dr M. Hirokane, Japan; Dr J.W. Hong, Korea; Prof. T.J.R. Hughes, USA; Dr F. Hulsemann, France; Dr J.E. Hurtado Gomez, Colombia; Dr S.F. Hwang, Taiwan; Prof. P. Iványi, Hungary; Prof. B. Izzuddin, UK; Prof. Y. Jaluria, USA; Prof. P.K. Jimack, UK; Prof. O. Jirousek, Czech Republic; Prof. G. Karniadakis, USA; Prof. A. Kaveh, Iran; Prof. T. Kerh, Taiwan; Dr A.I. Khan, Australia; Prof. P.H. Kirkegaard, Denmark; Prof. E. Kita, Japan; Dr L. Kong, Australia; Dr G. Kosec, Slovenia; Prof. V. Koumousis, Greece; Prof. M. Krafczyk, Germany; Prof. J. Kruis, Czech Republic; Prof. B. Kumar, UK; Prof. L. Laemmer, Germany; Prof. N.D. Lagaros, Greece; Prof. L. Lamberti, Italy; Prof. K. Law, USA; Prof. F. Lebon, France; Dr F. Ledoux, France; Prof. S.W. Lee, USA; Prof. P. Leger, Canada; Prof. K.M. Liew, Hong Kong; Prof. Y. Liu, USA; Prof. J. Logo, Hungary; Prof. R. Lohner, USA; Prof. P. Love, Australia; Prof. J.W.Z. Lu, Hong Kong; Dr R.I. Mackie, UK; Prof. F. Magoulès, France; Prof. C. Majorana, Italy; Prof. D.C. Marinescu, USA; Prof. N.C. Markatos, Greece; Dr V. Markine, Netherlands; Prof. R.V. Melnik, Canada; Dr J. Michopoulos, USA; Dr S. Mirjalili, Australia; Dr S. Mohasseb, Switzerland; Prof. R. Montenegro Armas, Spain; Prof. G. Muscolino, Italy; Prof. D.T. Nguyen, USA; Dr J.M. Nobrega, Portugal; Prof. P. Pagliosa, Brazil; Prof. J.B. Paiva, Brazil; Dr A. Palmeri, UK; Dr S. Pananikolaou, USA; Prof. P. Pandey, India; Prof. M. Papadrakakis, Greece; Prof. B. Patzak, Czech Republic; Prof. C.D. Perez-Segarra, Spain; Prof. S. Pietruszczak, Canada; Prof. J. Pombo, UK; Prof. P. Prochazka, Czech Republic; Prof. T. Rabczuk, Germany; Dr M. Rafiq, UK; Prof. M.M. Resch, Germany; Dr C. Romanel, Brazil; Prof. D. Roose, Belgium; Dr D. Rypl, Czech Republic; Prof. M.P. Saka, Kingdom of Bahrain; Dr S. Samarasinghe, New Zealand; Prof. M. Sanchez-Silva, Colombia; Prof. M. Schaefer, Germany; Prof. K. Seetharamu, India; Prof. M. Sejnoha, Czech Republic; Dr A.G. Sextos, Greece; Prof. A.A. Shabana, USA; Prof. J. Sienz, UK; Dr A. Simone, Netherlands; Dr D. Soares, Brazil; Dr A. Sofi, Italy; Prof. V. Sonzogni, Argentina; Prof. P. Spiteri, France; Dr I. Stroud, Switzerland; Dr R. Taboada-Vazquez, Spain; Prof. J. Telles, Brazil; Prof. H. Thomas, UK; Dr S. Thuillier, France; Dr P. Tirado, Spain; Prof. B.H.V. Topping, UK; Prof. J.R. Torregrosa, Spain; Dr J. Trevelyan, UK; Assoc. Prof. Y. Tsompanakis, Greece; Dr R.A.F. Valente, Portugal; Prof. V. Voller, USA; Dr C. Walshaw, UK; Dr G.N. Wells, UK; Prof. L.C. Wrobel, UK; Prof. F.Y. Zhao, Germany;; Prof. L.C. Wrobel, UK,; and Prof. F.Y. Zhao, Germany.

Conference Abstracts

Abstracts accepted for presentation at the conference will be available for participants to view and download via the Elsevier secure system, access to the system will be supplied to all registered attendees prior to the start of the conference.

The original 1200 word abstract submitted to the conference will be made available via the secure system and a shorter 400 word version of the abstract will be available via the conference app.

Journal Special Issues

Papers presented at the ECT2018 conference are eligible for submission to a special issue of the International Journal Advances in Engineering Software after the conference. The details of the submission procedures will be given on this webpage early in 2018. The review process and submission process will start in June 2018 participants should start preparing their papers for publication as soon as their extended abstracts are accepted.

Conference Registration

Elsevier is responsible for all registrations and other financial matters. For registration fees and other related matters please see the Elsevier website.

Conference Venue

The venue for the conference is the Melia Sitges Hotel, Carrer de Joan Salvat Papasseit, 38, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. The hotel is 30 km from Barcelona Airport and just 25 minutes by taxi.

All presentations, lunches and coffees will be at this location.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at Melia Sitges Hotel. Further details about hotel bookings will be available on the Elsevier site soon.

Visas

Please check with your travel agent or the Spanish Embassy in your country whether you require a visa to enter Spain. Please remember that it is your responsibility to obtain the visa in good time. If you require a letter of invitation, please submit your paper extended abstract soon.