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Preface

This volume comprises the contributed papers presented at The Eighth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology (ECT 2012) held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 4-7 September 2012. The ECT conference series began in Edinburgh in 1998. The ECT 2012 conference was held concurrently with The Eleventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (CST 2012).

The special sessions included in this volume of Proceedings are:

• High Performance Computing for Engineering
  organised by P. Iványi
• Coupled and Multi-Scale Methods
  organised by J. Kruis
• Analytical and Experimental Performance of Hybrid, Composite, Concrete Structural Systems and Tower Cranes
  organised by H.C. Kim, W.K. Hong and Y.S. Shin
• Mesh Generation and Adaption
  organised by J. Sarrate and F. Ledoux
• Numerical Methods for Solving Nonlinear Problems
  organised by J.R. Torregrosa and A. Cordero
• Isogeometric Analysis
  organised by T. Rabczuk
• Engineering Design Optimization using Recent Metaheuristic Techniques
  organised by M.P. Saka
• Network Analysis for Engineering Applications
  organised by S.V. Poroseva

The following sessions are also included in this volume:

• Imaging and Digital Representation
• Mathematical Visualisation
• Computer Aided Design
• Expert Systems
• Optimisation for Engineering Practice
• Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines
• Object-Oriented Methods
• Design of Experiments
• Engineering Analysis and Simulation
• Numerical Techniques in Engineering
• Multi-Body Systems
• Multi-Physics Problems
• Multi-Level Techniques
• Multi-Grid Method
• Contact Problems
• Crack Modelling
• Materials Modelling
• Computational Methods for Wave Propagation
• Heat Dissipation and Transfer Problems
• Finite Element Techniques
• Finite Element Studies
• Inverse Problems
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Rock Mechanics
• Foundation Engineering
• Soil-Structure Interaction
• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• CFD and Modelling of Flow
• Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication
• Chemical Engineering
• Aeronautical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Transport Engineering

Other papers presented at the conferences in 2012 are published as follows:

• The Invited Review Lectures from CST 2012 and ECT 2012 are published in:
  Computational Technology Reviews, Volumes 5 and 6, Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 2012.
• The Invited Lectures from CST 2012 and ECT 2012 are published in:
  Computational Methods for Engineering Science, B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 2012.
• The Contributed Papers from CST 2012 are published in:
  Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), (Book of Summaries with online delivery of full-text papers), Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 2012.

I would like to thank the members of the ECT 2012 Conference Editorial Board for their help before and during the conference: Prof. E. Aifantis, Greece; Dr H. Akiba, Japan; Prof. H.M. Al-Humaidi, Kuwait; Dr N. Alexandrov, USA; Prof. F. Aliabadi, UK; Prof. C. Allen, UK; Dr M. Amato, Italy; Prof. J.A.C. Ambrósio, Portugal; Prof. X. Antoine, France; Dr S.J. Antony, UK; Prof. H.R. Arabnia, USA; Prof D.C. Barton, UK; Prof. K. Bathe, USA; Dr E. Bellenger, France; Prof. A. Beltzer, Israel; Prof. A.C. Benim, Germany; Prof. R.B. Bhat, Canada; Prof. H. Bijl, Netherlands; Prof. D. Boffi, Italy; Prof. S. Bordas, UK; Prof. R.I. Borja, USA; Prof. B. Brank, Slovenia; Prof. T. Burczynski, Poland; Dr F. Cai, Japan; Prof. A. Cardona, Argentina; Assoc. Prof. O.S. Carneiro, Portugal; Dr C.F. Castro, Portugal; Prof. M. Cerrolaza, Venezuela; Dr A.P. Chassiakos, Greece; Prof. H.M. Chen, Taiwan; Prof. T.Y. Chen, Taiwan; Dr H.P.(. Cheng, USA; Prof. F. Chinesta, France; Asst. Prof. M.H. Chung, Taiwan; Asst. Prof. R. Citarella, Italy; Prof. J.Y. Cognard, France; Prof. P. Coorevits, France; Dr A. Cordero, Spain; Prof. J.R. Corney, UK; Dr V. Couaillier, France; Prof. M. Cross, UK; Prof. E. Cueto, Spain; Prof. L. Damkilde, Denmark; Dr K. Davey, UK; Prof. G. Degrande, Belgium; Dr C. Di Napoli, Italy; Prof. E. Dick, Belgium; Dr M. Dolenc, Slovenia; Prof. I.S. Duff, UK; Prof. P. Eberhard, Germany; Dr L. Eca, Portugal; Prof. D. Eyheramendy, France; Dr J.J. Fang, Taiwan; Prof. C.A. Felippa, USA; Prof. L. Ferragut Canals, Spain; Prof. B. Freisleben, Germany; Prof. J.D. Frost, USA; Prof. K. Fujii, Japan; Dr D. Ginestar, Spain; Prof. R. Glowinski, USA; Prof. P. González-Vera, Spain; Dr G.A. Gravvanis, Greece; Dr Y.M. Guo, Japan; Prof. W. Habashi, Canada; Dr W. Habchi, Lebanon; Dr L. Hadjileontiadis, Greece; Prof. O. Hassan MBE, UK; Prof. S. Hernández Ibáñez, Spain; Dr M. Hirokane, Japan; Prof. T.J.R. Hughes, USA; Dr F. Hulsemann, France; Dr J.E. Hurtado Gomez, Colombia; Dr S.F. Hwang, Taiwan; Prof. S.R. Idelsohn, Spain; Dr P. Iványi, Hungary; Dr M.S. Jaafar, Malaysia; Prof. H.A. Jakobsen, Norway; Prof. Y. Jaluria, USA; Prof. K. Jezernik, Slovenia; Prof. P.K. Jimack, UK; Dr O. Jirousek, Czech Republic; Prof. M. Kawahara, Japan; Dr S. Kenjeres, Netherlands; Prof. T. Kerh, Taiwan; Prof. H.C. Kim, Korea; Prof. Y.S. Kim, Korea; Prof. P.H. Kirkegaard, Denmark; Prof. E. Kita, Japan; Dr L. Kong, Australia; Prof. V. Koumousis, Greece; Dr J. Kruis, Czech Republic; Prof. L. Laemmer, Germany; Prof. K. Law, USA; Prof. F. Lebon, France; Dr F. Ledoux, France; Prof. S. Lee, USA; Prof. P. Leger, Canada; Prof. K.M. Liew, Hong Kong; Prof. L.N. Long, USA; Dr J.W.Z. Lu, Hong Kong; Dr R.I. Mackie, UK; Prof. F. Magoules, France; Dr J. Marin, Spain; Prof. D.C. Marinescu, USA; Prof. N.C. Markatos, Greece; Prof. K. Matsuno, Japan; Dr K. Meerbergen, Belgium; Prof. R.V. Melnik, Canada; Prof. A. Meyer, Germany; Prof. R. Montenegro Armas, Spain; Prof. M. Mueller-Hannemann, Germany; Prof. U. Naumann, Germany; Prof. D.T. Nguyen, USA; Dr F. Nicot, France; Prof. A.K. Noor, USA; Prof. R. Ohayon, France; Prof. H. Okuda, Japan; Prof. P. Oosthuizen, Canada; Prof. P. Pagliosa, Brazil; Prof. J.B. Paiva, Brazil; Prof. P. Pandey, India; Prof. M. Papadrakakis, Greece; Dr B. Patzak, Czech Republic; Prof. C.D. Perez-Segarra, Spain; Dr S.V. Poroseva, USA; Dr H. Power, UK; Prof. P. Prochazka, Czech Republic; Prof. T. Rabczuk, Germany; Dr M. Rafiq, UK; Prof. E. Ramm, Germany; Prof. Z. Ren, Slovenia; Prof. M.M. Resch, Germany; Dr L.M.d.S. Ribeiro, Portugal; Dr G. Rodriguez Sanchez, Spain; Dr C. Romanel, Brazil; Prof. M.P. Saka, Bahrain; Dr S. Samarasinghe, New Zealand; Prof. R.L. Sani, USA; Dr J. Sarrate, Spain; Prof. M. Schaefer, Germany; Prof. R. Schaefer, Poland; Prof O. Schenk, Switzerland; Prof. K. Schilling, Germany; Prof. K. Schweizerhof, Germany; Prof. K. Seetharamu, India; Prof. A.A. Shabana, USA; Prof. J. Sienz, UK; Dr D. Soares, Brazil; Prof. V. Sonzogni, Argentina; Prof. P. Spiteri, France; Prof. R. Stenberg, Finland; Dr I. Stroud, Switzerland; Dr S.H. Suh, Korea; Dr R. Taboada-Vazquez, Spain; Prof. J. Telles, Brazil; Prof. H. Thomas, UK; Dr P. Tirado, Spain; Prof. J.R. Torregrosa, Spain; Dr A. Trivedi, USA; Prof. J.J. Trujillo Jacinto del Castillo, Spain; Prof. C.P. Tsai, Taiwan; Prof. V. Voller, USA; Prof. H. Voss, Germany; Dr C. Walshaw, UK; Prof. T. Wasfy, USA; Dr G.N. Wells, England; Prof. M. Wolfshtein, Israel; Prof. L.C. Wrobel, UK; Prof. B. Yang, USA; Dr Z. Yang, UK; and Prof. F.Y. Zhao, Germany.

Finally, I am grateful to Jelle Muylle for designing these conference proceedings and for all his administrative and organisational skills in organising these conferences. I also thank Dawn Sewell (Civil-Comp Press) for her administrative support.

B.H.V. Topping University of Pécs, Hungary & Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK