<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;}</style></div><div><br></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #00823b;" data-mce-style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #00823b;">ECCOMAS Announcements – February 2018</span></b><br></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" 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;">You will find below the announcement of upcoming international events organized under the auspices of ECCOMAS. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Full information is posted on </span><a href="file:///\\192.168.170.6\congresos\congresos\Asociaciones\ECCOMAS\Dissemination%20mails\2016\www.eccomas.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="file:///\\192.168.170.6\congresos\congresos\Asociaciones\ECCOMAS\Dissemination%20mails\2016\www.eccomas.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">www.eccomas.org</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251659264; left: -2px; top: 14px; width: 620px; height: 20px;" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251659264; left: -2px; top: 14px; width: 620px; height: 20px;"><img width="620" height="6" dfsrc="cid:image001.png@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"><span style="text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></b></p><br style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" clear="ALL" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.eccomas.org/vpage/1/2/ECCOMAS-PhD-Award" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.eccomas.org/vpage/1/2/ECCOMAS-PhD-Award"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">ECCOMAS Award for the two best PhD Theses in 2017 on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering: </span></b></a><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Deadline for reception of candidate theses is 8 March 2018</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251662336; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251662336; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;"><img width="620" height="6" dfsrc="cid:image001.png@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p><br style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" clear="ALL" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #00823b;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #00823b;"><a href="http://www.eccm-ecfd2018.org/frontal/Scholarships.asp" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.eccm-ecfd2018.org/frontal/Scholarships.asp">ECCOMAS ECCM-ECFD 2018 Scholarships</a></span></b></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Managing Board of ECCOMAS has decided to offer 20 scholarships to European Citizens who are PhD students at the time of the registration. Non-European Citizens are eligible to apply if there is an ECCOMAS affiliated association in their country.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The scholarships will consist of:</span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">free registration to the Congress</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">up to 500 € to support travel and accommodation expenses</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;">Deadline for scholarship application</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">March 5, 2018</span></strong></span><strong><span style="color: red;" data-mce-style="color: red;"></span></strong></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; 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background: white;" data-mce-style="line-height: 13.5pt; background: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #222222; mso-fareast-language: ES;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #222222; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><img border="0" width="624" height="112" id="Imagen_x0020_12" dfsrc="cid:image003.jpg@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=4&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=4&auth=co"></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #222222;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #222222;"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #007033;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #007033;"><br></span></b><a href="http://www.unipv.it/compmech/nl18_home.html" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.unipv.it/compmech/nl18_home.html"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">NL 18 COURSE - Nonlinear Computational Solid & Structural Mechanics</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">May 21 - 25, 2018, Pavia, Italy</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The main objective of this course is to provide engineers, graduate students, and researchers with a review of numerical techniques and solution algorithms for nonlinear mechanics. It presents the current state-of-the-art in finite element modeling of nonlinear problems in solid and structural mechanics and illustrates difficulties (and possible solutions) appearing in a number of applications. <br>Different sources of nonlinear behavior are presented in a systematic manner. Special attention is paid to nonlinear constitutive behavior of materials, large deformations and rotations of structures, contact and instability problems with either material (localization) or geometric (buckling) nonlinearities, which are needed to fully grasp weaknesses of structural design.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The course will also provide insight both on advanced mathematical aspects as well as into the practical aspects of several computational techniques, such as the finite element method, isogeometric analysis, meshless techniques, virtual element method.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251660288; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251660288; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;"><img width="620" height="6" dfsrc="cid:image001.png@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></b></p><br style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" clear="ALL" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: ES;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><img border="0" width="627" height="62" id="Imagen_x0020_11" dfsrc="cid:image004.jpg@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=5&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=5&auth=co"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://shortcourse2018.it.cas.cz/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://shortcourse2018.it.cas.cz/"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Advanced Course on Computational Structural Dynamics</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">June 4-8, 2018, Prague, </span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Czech Republic</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The short course <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">An Advanced Course on Computational Structural Dynamics</span></strong> covers topics relating to modern and recent numerical methods in <em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">computational structural dynamics</span></em>, finite element method in linear and nonlinear dynamic cases, wave propagation in solids and its numerical solution, numerical methods in dynamic contact problems, buckling analysis, modern methods for direct time integration and partitioned analysis, modal and spectral analysis, coupled problems (e.g. fluid-structure interaction), reduction modelling in dynamics and many others. </span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251661312; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: relative; z-index: 251661312; left: -1px; top: 26px; width: 620px; height: 32px;"><img width="620" height="6" dfsrc="cid:image001.png@01D3A989.B5FBD430" src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co" data-mce-src="/service/home/~/?id=269407&part=3&auth=co"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p><br style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" clear="ALL" data-mce-style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><h3><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><a href="http://wavemodelling2018.it.cas.cz/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://wavemodelling2018.it.cas.cz/"><span style="font-style: normal;" data-mce-style="font-style: normal;">The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Modelling of Wave Propagation in Solids</span></a></span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: blue;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: blue;"></span></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></h3><h3><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: blue;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: blue;">An ECCOMAS Regional Conference</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"></span></strong></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><h4 style="margin-top: 0cm;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;">Institute of Thermomechanics</span></h4><h4 style="margin-top: 0cm;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;">The Czech Academy of Sciences</span></h4><h4 style="margin-top: 0cm;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;">Prague, Czech Republic</span></h4><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">September 17-21 2018</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Modelling of Wave Propagation in Solids aims to bring together scientists and engineers with interest in advanced modelling of wave propagation in solids. The Conference on Advanced Modelling of Wave Propagation in Solids will concentrate on topics related to analytical, numerical and experimental studies of linear and non-linear waves in conventional, advanced and modern materials like metamaterials and auxetic materials, to strongly dispersive wave propagation in inhomogeneous solids and to waves in materials with microstructure, etc. Attention will also be devoted to up-to-date formulations of non-linear constitutive equations in the description of material response under thermomechanical loading, dynamic fracture and damage, phase transformations, shock waves, and to dissipative effects.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: red;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: ES;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: ES;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: ES;"></span><br></p></div><div><br></div></body></html>