<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div>Desde: 28-08-2018</div><div>Hasta: 29-08-2018</div><div>Lugar: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Ghent University, Belgium</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>NME 2018<br></div><div><br></div><style><!--<br><div><br></div>@font-face<br> {font-family:"Cambria Math";<br> panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}<br>@font-face<br> {font-family:"Yu Gothic";<br> panose-1:2 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}<br>@font-face<br> {font-family:Calibri;<br> panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}<br>@font-face<br> {font-family:"\@Yu Gothic";<br> panose-1:2 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}<br><div><br></div>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal<br> {margin:0cm;<br> margin-bottom:.0001pt;<br> font-size:11.0pt;<br> font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}<br>a:link, span.MsoHyperlink<br> {mso-style-priority:99;<br> color:#0563C1;<br> text-decoration:underline;}<br>a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed<br> {mso-style-priority:99;<br> color:#954F72;<br> text-decoration:underline;}<br>p<br> {mso-style-priority:99;<br> mso-margin-top-alt:auto;<br> margin-right:0cm;<br> mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;<br> margin-left:0cm;<br> font-size:12.0pt;<br> font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}<br>span.EmailStyle17<br> {mso-style-type:personal-compose;<br> font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;<br> color:windowtext;}<br>.MsoChpDefault<br> {mso-style-type:export-only;<br> font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}<br>@page WordSection1<br> {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;<br> margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;}<br>div.WordSection1<br> {page:WordSection1;}<br>--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Dear Colleague,<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">It is my pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to:</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering,<br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">28-29 August 2018, Ghent University, Belgium</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Conference topics</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">NME topics include numerical techniques, such as Finite element method, Finite difference method, Boundary element method, Discrete element method, Collocation methods, Meshfree methods<br> and Isogeometric analysis, and their applications to Civil, Electrical and Mechanical engineering.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Civil Engineering:<br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Bridges and dams, Cyclic loading, Fluid dynamics, Structural mechanics, Geotechnical engineering, Thermal analysis, Reinforced concrete structures, Steel structures, Composite<br> structures.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Electrical Engineering:<br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Electromagnetic analysis, Thick conductors, Thin conductors, Ferromagnetic materials, Electrical Machines, Robotics, Transformers and generators Magnetodynamics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Materials Science and Engineering:<br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Composite materials, Polymers, Metal alloys, Fracture mechanics, Fatigue of materials, Creep, Mechanical behaviour, Microstructure, Phase transformation, Crystal plasticity.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Mechanical Engineering:<br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Aerospace applications, Acoustic analysis, Biomechanical applications, Contact problems and wear, Heat transfer analysis, Vibration and dynamics, Transient analysis, Nonlinear<br> analysis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Abstract submission</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"> (deadline 25 February 2018)<br> to NME 2018 secretariat: </span><a href="mailto:nme@ugent.be" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:nme@ugent.be"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">nme@ugent.be</span></a></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Conference website:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"></span><a href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">http://www.nme.ugent.be/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Keynote speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"></span><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/civil/staff/academic/deborst" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/civil/staff/academic/deborst"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">Professor René de Borst</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">,<br> The Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK. </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Topic:</span><a href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/Ren%C3%A9_de_Borst.pdf" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/Ren%C3%A9_de_Borst.pdf"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none;"></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">Computational Modelling of Fracture in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"> <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Venue</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">:<br></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333;">The conference will be held at the congress centre<br></span><a href="http://www.ugent.be/het-pand/en" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.ugent.be/het-pand/en"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Het Pand</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333;"> at Ghent University, Belgium.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Publications</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">: Proceedings of FFW 2018 will be published in</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.springer.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">Lecture Notes (Springer).</span></a></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Full length papers should be prepared according to the<br></span><a href="https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #954f72;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #954f72;">author's guidelines of Springer.</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Best Regards</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">-------</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering, NME 2018</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">28-29 August 2018, Ghent University, Belgium</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><a href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.nme.ugent.be/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #0563c1;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #0563c1;">http://www.nme.ugent.be/</span></a></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">On behalf of Conference Chairman:</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Prof M Wahab,</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Laboratory Soete, Ghent University</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 903,</span><span lang="NL"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.</span><span lang="NL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>