<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div><div><br></div></div><div>The Tenth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology (ECT2018)</div><div>will take place in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, from 4 to 6 September 2018.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Conference web page: http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/2018/ect/ect2018.htm</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="subtitle">Introduction</div><div class="text">This is the Tenth Conference in the Engineering Computational Technology series that commenced in 1998. Previous venues for the conference have included: Edinburgh, Prague, Leuven, Lisbon, Gran Canaria, Athens, Valencia, Dubrovnik and Naples. The conference is concerned with the application of the latest computational technology to all aspects of engineering. Computational Technology encompasses both the latest hardware and software developments as well as algorithmic and theoretical developments. Contributors to this conference series have included engineers, mathematicians and scientists.<p>The conference is concerned with both theoretical, mathematical and scientific developments as well as applications of established technology to new domains.</p><p>The conference runs concurrently with the <a href="http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/2018/cst/cst2018.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/2018/cst/cst2018.htm">Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology</a>. Participants may attend sessions from either CST2018 or ECT2018 conference.</p></div><div class="subtitle"><a name="themes" class="mce-item-anchor"></a>Themes</div><div class="text">The themes for this conference will include (but are not limited to):<p><b>Computational Methods for:</b></p><ul><li>Computational Fluid Dynamics</li><li>Computational Geomechanics</li><li>Computational Geo-Environmental Mechanics</li><li>Computational Biomechanics</li><li>Computer Modelling and Simulation</li><li>Rock Mechanics</li><li>Multi-Phase Problems</li><li>Multi-Physics Problems</li><li>Soil-Structure Interaction</li><li>Fluid-Structure Interaction</li><li>Biomechanical Engineering</li><li>Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems</li><li>Stochastic Mechanics</li><li>Fluid Transport Simulation and Modelling</li><li>Flow Simulation and Modelling</li><li>Telematics, Tele-maintenance, Tele-diagnosis</li><li>Inverse Problems</li><li>Thermal Problems</li><li>Automotive Applications</li><li>Crash, Impact and Contact: Analysis and Simulation</li><li>Geotechnical Problems</li><li>Multi-Scale Problems</li><li>Nanomechanics</li><li>Micromechanics</li><li>Mechanics of Granular Materials</li><li>Process Simulation</li><li>Wave Propagation</li><li>Environmental Engineering</li><li>Design and Manufacture</li><li>Materials Processing</li><li>Micro- and Nano- Scale Problems</li><li>Multibody Dynamics</li><li>Geophysics</li><li>Accoustics</li><li>Energy Systems</li><li>Active and Passive Control</li><li>Heat Transfer Problems</li></ul><b>Computational Techniques including:</b><ul><li>Data Mining</li><li>Evolutionary Algorithms</li><li>Evolutionary Processes</li><li>Computational Methods deriving their inspiration from Nature</li><li>Soft Computing Methods</li><li>Particle Methods</li><li>Meshless Methods</li><li>Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks</li><li>Numerical and Computational Linear Algebra</li><li>Mathematical Modelling</li><li>Multi-Scale Modelling</li><li>Finite and Boundary Element Method</li><li>Adaptive Procedures</li><li>Probabilistic Methods</li><li>Multiscale modelling</li></ul><b> Engineering Modelling, Simulation including Pre- and Post- Processing:</b><ul><li>Domain Decomposition and Partitioning</li><li>Geometric Modelling</li><li>Mesh and Grid Generation</li><li>Model Verification</li><li>Pre- and Post- Processing</li><li>Quantification of Uncertainty in Simulations</li></ul><b> Engineering Design, Optimization and Manufacture:</b><ul><li>Computer Aided Design & Computer Aided Engineering</li><li>Computer Aided Manufacture</li><li>CAD/CAM Rapid Prototyping</li><li>Optimal Design</li><li>Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis</li></ul><b>Engineering Modelling, Information Systems, Management and Decision Making including:</b><ul><li>Decision Making in Engineering Management</li><li>Construction Management and Control</li><li>Information Systems</li><li>Communications</li><li>Project Management</li></ul><b>Engineering Applications of Computational Technology including:</b><ul><li>Computational Intelligence</li><li>Embedded High Performance Computing</li><li>Hardware and Software Developments for HPC</li><li>Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments</li><li>Virtual Prototyping</li><li>Visualisation and Graphics</li><li>Computational Steering</li><li>Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Processing</li><li>Use of High Performance Computer Architectures</li><li>Supercomputing</li><li>Distributed Computing and Networking</li><li>Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems</li><li>Virtual Environments</li><li>Virtual Humans</li><li>Data Mining</li></ul><b>Software Development and Maintenance for Engineering Applications including:</b><ul><li>Software Standards and Quality Control</li><li>Verification and Validation</li><li>Grid Computing</li><li>Object Oriented Methods</li><li>Solution Procedures for Large Scale Problems</li><li>Novel Software Tools and Development Environments</li><li>Algorithms for Vectorization and Parallelisation</li><li>Software Reliability</li></ul><b>Computational Engineering: Education and Training</b><ul><li>Course Development</li><li>On-line Training Systems</li></ul><div><br></div><div>Opening Lecture</div><div class="text">The ECT2018 Conference will be opened jointly with the <a href="http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/2018/cst/cst2018.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/2018/cst/cst2018.htm">CST2018</a> Conference with a lecture presented by Professor K.J. Bathe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.<p>The conference opening lecture will commence at 9am on Tuesday 4th September 2018.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>