Engineering Computational Technology 2020

This Civil-Comp Conference is organised by Elsevier the link to their site is here in the near future. 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
Computational Inertia Microfluidics
Telematics, Tele-maintenance, Tele-diagnosis
Inverse Problems
Thermal Problems
Automotive Applications
Crash, Impact and Contact: Analysis and Simulation
Geotechnical Problems
Soil-Structure Interaction
Multi-Scale Problems
Nanomechanics
Micromechanics
Mechanics of Granular Materials
Porus Media
Process Simulation
Wave Propagation
Environmental Engineering
Design and Manufacture
Materials Processing
Micro- and Nano- Scale Problems
Multibody Dynamics
Geophysics
Accoustics
Energy Systems
Renewable Energy Systems
Active and Passive Control
Heat Transfer Problems
Failure and Instability Modeling
Computational Sustainability and Environmental Engineering
Uncertainty Quantification
Data Assimilation

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
Additive Manufacturing
Swarm Intelligence Techniques
Machine Learning Algorithms
Surrogate Modeling
Reduced order methods
Adjoint methods
Methods for Optimal Control

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

Decision Making in Engineering Management
Construction Management and Control
Information Systems
Communications
Project Management
Agent-Based Models

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
Digital Twin

Computational Engineering: Education and Training

Course Development
On-line Training Systems

Opening Lecture

The conference opening lecture will commence at 9am on Tuesday 8th September 2020.

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.

The list of special sessions currently includes:

ECT 1 - Fluid Dynamics
Professor W.G. Habashi, Canada

ECT 2 - Splitting Methods
Professor J. Geiser, Germany

ECT 3 - Efficient Methods for Computational Biomechanics
Dr G. Kharmanda and Prof A. El-Hami, France

ECT 4 - BIM-based Computational Simulation
Professor G. Meschke, Germany, Professor J. Ninic United kingdom, Dr S. Freitag, Germany

ECT 5 - Advances in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Professor J.F.A. Madeira, Professor A.L. Araujo and Professor A. Sequeira, Portugal

ECT 6 - Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting of Structures
Professor Humberto Varum, Portugal, Professor Bruno Briseghella, China, Prof. Camillo Nuti, Italy and Professor Enrico Spacone, Italy

ECT 7 - Optimization for sustainable, robust and resilient structures: design, maintenance and retrofitting
Professor Alberto Martins and Professor Luis Simoes, Portugal

Proposals for special sessions may be sent to the conference editor via: ectcst20 AT civil-comp.info

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 for this conference is:

Professor J.F. Aguilar Madeira, Portugal
Professor E.C. Aifantis, Greece
Dr Hiroshi Akiba, Japan
Dr Simon Joseph Antony, UK
Dr Mehrdad Arashpour, Australia
Professor Aurelio Lima Araujo, Portugal
Professor Alessandro Baratta, Italy
Professor K.J. Bathe, United States of America
Professor Emmanuel Bellenger, France
Dr M Bruggi, Italy
Professor Dimos C Charmpis, Cyprus
Professor Meng-Hsuan Chung, Taiwan
Dr Pedro G. Coelho, Portugal
Professor A. Csebfalvi, Hungary
Professor Geert Degrande, Belgium
Professor R.A. Deiterding, United Kingdom
Dr Matevz Dolenc, Slovenia
Professor A. El-Hami, France
Dr Steffen Freitag, Germany
PD Dr. Juergen Geiser, Germany
Dr J.M. Gomba, Argentina
Professor George A. Gravvanis, Greece
Professor W.G. Habashi, Canada
Dr Wassim Habchi, Lebanon
Dr Jung-Wuk Hong, Korea
Professor Peter K. Jimack, UK
Professor G. Kharmanda, France
Professor Eisuke Kita, Japan
Dr Dmitri Kvasov, Italy
Professor Frederic Lebon, France
Dr R. Ian Mackie, UK
Professor Alberto Martins, Portugal
Professor Jean-Mathieu Mencik, France
Professor Gunther Meschke, Germany
Professor R. Montenegro Armas, Spain
Professor Matthias Mueller-Hannemann, Germany
Asc Professor Hosein Naderpour, Iran
Dr Francois Nicot, France
Professor Jelena Ninic, United Kingdom
Professor Camillo Nuti, Italy
Professor Roger Ohayon, France
Professor P.A. Pagliosa, Brazil
Professor João Batista Paiva, Brazil
Dr Alessandro Palmeri, UK
Dr Vagelis Plevris, Norway
Dr M.Y. Rafiq, UK
Professor Michael M Resch, Germany
Dr Celso Romanel, Brazil
Professor Sandhya Samarasinghe, New Zealand
Professor Robert Schaefer, Poland
Professor Adelia Sequeira, Portugal
Professor L.M. da Cruz Simoes, Portugal
Dr Delfim Soares, Brazil
Professor Enrico Spacone, Italy
Professor P Spiteri, France
Dr Raquel Taboada-Vazquez, Spain
Professor A.A. Taflanidis, USA
Professor Harun Tanyildizi, Turkey
Professor J.R. Torregrosa, Spain
Professor Ching Piao Tsai, Taiwan
Dr M.R. Vafaei, Malaysia
Professor Humberto Varum, Portugal
Professor Gerhard Venter, South Africa
Dr Chris Walshaw, UK
Professor Machi Zawidzki, Poland

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 ECT2020 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 at the conference.

Conference Registration

Elsevier is responsible for all registrations and other financial matters. For registration fees and other related matters please see the Elsevier website (link at the top of this page).

Conference Venue

The venue for the conference is the Palau de Congressos de Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

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

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Melia Palma Bay Hotel, Mallorca, Spain. 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.