smart2015_organization

Conference Organization
Organizing Committee
Aurélio L. Araújo (Chairman) – IDMEC/IST, Portugal Carlos A. Mota Soares (Honorary Chairman) – IDMEC/IST, Portugal Filipa Moleiro Duarte – IDMEC/IST, Portugal Cristóvão M. Mota Soares – IDMEC/IST, Portugal Afzal Suleman – IDMEC/IST, Portugal and U. Victoria, Canada
Scientific Committee
S. Adali, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa J. Ambrósio, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal F. Auricchio, Università di Pavia, Italy S. Belouettar, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg A. Benjeddou, SUPMECA, France C. Boller, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany E. Carrera, Politecnico di Torino, Italy F. Casciati, Università di Pavia, Italy M. Cinefra, Politecnico di Torino, Italy A. Cunha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal L. Faravelli, Università di Pavia, Italy A. Ferreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal M. Friswell, University of Swansea, UK U. Gabbert, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany P. Gaudenzi, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy L. Gaul, Universität Stuttgart, Germany C. Gentile, Politecnico di Milano, Italy J. Guedes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	A. Guemes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain J. Holnicki-Szulc, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland M. Krommer, Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria R. Lammering, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany J. Madeira, IDMEC - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal A. Mita, Keio University, Japan C. Moutinho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal W. Ostachowicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland O. Polit, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre, France E. Prasad, University of Toronto, Canada A. Preumont, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium J.N. Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA S. Rinderknech, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany J. Rodellar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain H. Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal W.J. Staszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland T. Wallmersperger, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
SMART2015 has been supported by
ECCOMAS - European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences IDMEC - Institute of Mechanical Engineering UAç - University of the Azores Azorean Regional Government CMPD - Câmara Municipal de Ponta Delgada Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Organizing Institution
IDMEC - Institute of Mechanical Engineering The Organizers are grateful to the University of the Azores for hosting the conference and for all the logistic support.