International Advisory Board

Professor M. Achmus
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Professor S. Adali
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Professor J.M. Adam
Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain

Professor H. Adeli
Ohio State University, USA

Professor S. Adriaenssens
Princeton University, USA

Professor J. Ambrosio
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor L.V. Andersen
Aarhus University, Denmark

Professor C.J. Anumba
University of Florida, USA

Professor A. Araujo
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor F. Armero
University of California at Berkeley, USA

Professor H. Askes
University of Sheffield, UK

Professor A. Astaneh-Asl
University of California at Berkeley, USA

Dr. M. Baessler
Federal Institute for Material Research & Testing, Germany

Professor B. Baier
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Professor C. Bailey
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Professor T. Balendra
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Professor Y. Ballim
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Professor J.R. Banerjee
City University London, UK

Professor L.C. Bank
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Professor N. Banthia
University of British Columbia, Canada

Professor R.C. Barros
University of Porto, Portugal

Dr. C. Basaglia
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Professor K.J. Bathe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Professor Z.P. Bazant
Northwestern University, USA

Dr. A. Behnejad
University of Surrey, UK

Professor J.L.I.F. Belis
Ghent University, Belgium

Professor K. Bergmeister
University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Austria

Professor D. Beskos
University of Patras, Greece

Professor F.S.K. Bijlaard
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor L. Bisby
University of Edinburgh, UK

Professor Z. Bittnar
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professor J. Blachut
University of Liverpool, UK

Professor P. Block
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Professor G. Borino
University of Palermo, Italy

Professor C. Borri
University of Florence, Italy

Professor L.F. Boswell
City University, London, UK

Professor H. Bouchair
Clermont Auvergne University, France

Professor M. Bradford
University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor E. Bruehwiler
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor R. Burgueno
Stony Brook University, USA

Professor O. Buyukozturk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Professor S. Caddemi
University of Catania, Italy

Professor D. Camotim
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor W. Cantwell
University of Liverpool, UK

Dr. C. Caprani
Monash University, Australia

Professor R. Cerny
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professor J.F. Chen
Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Professor R.L. Chen
Xiang Tan University, China

Professor Y. Chen
Southeast University, China

Professor C.K. Choi
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Professor A.K. Chopra
University of California at Berkeley, USA

Professor K.F. Chung
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor S. Chung Kim Yuen
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Professor J.G.A. Croll
University College London, UK

Professor G. Cusatis
Northwestern University, USA

Professor A. d’Ambrisi
University of Florence, Italy

Professor R. de Borst
University of Sheffield, UK

Professor G. Degrande
University of Leuven, Belgium

Professor G. De Matteis
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Professor V. Denoel
University of Liege, Belgium

Professor G. De Roeck
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Professor A. De Stefano
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Professor E. Detournay
University of Minnesota, USA

Dr. L. Di Sarno
University of Liverpool, UK

Professor G. Domokos
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Professor D. Dubina
University of Timisoara, Romania

Professor J. Dulinska
Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Professor M. Dundu
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor W. Ehlers
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor A.A. El Damatty
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Professor A.Y. Elghazouli
Imperial College London, UK

Professor A. Elnashai
University of Houston, USA

Professor S. El-Tawil
University of Michigan, USA

Professor M. Engelhardt
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Professor E. Erdogmus
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Professor E. Fehling
University of Kassel, Germany

Professor J. Feix
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Professor G.A. Ferro
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Professor F.C. Filippou
University of California at Berkeley, USA

Professor D.M. Frangopol
Lehigh University, USA

Professor Y. Fujino
Yokohama National University, Japan

Professor C. Gantes
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Professor A. Garbacz
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Professor L. Gardner
Imperial College London, UK

Professor A. Ghobarah
McMaster University, Canada

Professor A. Ghorbanpoor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Professor R.I. Gilbert
University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor L. Giuliani
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Professor M. Gizejowski
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Professor L.A. Godoy
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

Professor M. Gohnert
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Professor P. Gosling
University of Newcastle, UK

Professor P.L. Gould
Washington University, USA

Professor A. Gresnigt
Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Professor A.A. Groenwold
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Professor S. Guest
University of Cambridge, UK

Professor W. Guggenberger
Technical University of Graz, Austria

Professor G. Hancock
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor R. Harte
Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany

Professor N.M. Hawkins
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Professor S. Heyns
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Professor M. Holicky
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professor K. Holschemacher
Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Prof T. Ibell
University of Bath, UK

Professor A. Ibrahimbegovic
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France

Professor A. Ilki
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Professor K. Jarmai
University of Miskolc, Hungary

Professor D. Jun
Hochschule Ruhr West, Germany

Professor H.J. Jung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Professor A. Kappos
Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

Professor M. Karmazinova
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Professor R. Karoumi
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Professor A. Kaveh
Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Professor K. Kayvani
Aurecon Group, Australia

Professor C.W. Kim
Kyoto University, Japan

Professor H.K. Kim
Seoul National University, Korea

Professor S. Kitipornchai
University of Queensland, Australia

Professor J.G. Korvink
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Professor R. Kotynia
Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Professor U. Kuhlmann
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor G. Langdon
University of Sheffield, UK

Professor D.T. Lau
Carleton Ottawa University, Canada

Professor C. Lazaro
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Professor W. Lewis
University of Warwick, UK

Professor G.Q. Li
Tongji University, China

Professor H.N. Li
Dalian University of Technology, China

Professor M.P. Limongelli
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Professor A. Long
Queen's University of Belfast, UK

Professor J. Loughlan
Loughborough University, UK

Professor Y. Lu
University of Edinburgh, UK

Professor J.F.A. Madeira
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor K. Magnucki
Institute of Rail Vehicles TABOR, Poland

Professor J. Mahachi
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor J. Maljaars
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor H.A. Mang
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Professor M. Maslak
Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Professor H. Matsunaga
Setsunan University, Japan

Professor F.M. Mazzolani
University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Professor J. Melcher
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Professor G. Meschke
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Professor B. Middendorf
University of Kassel, Germany

Professor F.J. Montans
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Professor G. Morgenthal
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany

Professor C.A. Mota Soares
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor M. Motavalli
EMPA, Switzerland

Professor A.L. Mrema
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Professor A. Muttoni
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor J. Naprstek
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

Professor R.S. Narayanan
Consultant to Clark Smith Partnership, UK

Professor D.A. Nethercot
Imperial College London, UK

Professor V.T. Nguyen
Graz University of Technology, Austria

Professor Y.Q. Ni
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor H.J. Niemann
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Professor D. Novak
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Professor A. Nowak
University of Michigan, USA

Professor G.N. Nurick
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Professor R. Ohayon
Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France

Professor J.P. Ou
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Professor T. Pandelani
University of South Africa, South Africa

Professor M. Papadrakakis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Professor H. Pasternak
BTU Cottbus, Germany

Professor A. Pavic
University of Exeter, UK

Professor S. Pellegrino
California Institute of Technology, USA

Professor D. Peric
University of Swansea, UK

Professor F. Perotti
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Professor M. Pulsfort
Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany

Professor O. Rabinovitch
Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, Israel

Professor E. Ramm
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor G. Ranzi
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor K. Rasmussen
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor E. Real
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Professor B.D. Reddy
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Professor J.V. Retief
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Professor T. Ricken
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor J.M. Ricles
Lehigh University, USA

Professor I. Robertson
University of Hawaii, USA

Professor G. Rombach
Technical University of Hamburg, Germany

Professor B. Rossi
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Professor J.G. Rots
Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Professor J.M. Rotter
University of Edinburg, UK

Professor C. Sansour
University of Nottingham, UK

Professor B.W. Schafer
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Professor S. Schmauder
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor R. Schmidt
RWTH Aachen, Germany

Professor J. Schroeder
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Professor S.A. Sheikh
University of Toronto, Canada

Professor S. Shrivastava
McGill University, Canada

Professor N. Silvestre
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor I.F.C. Smith
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor R.A. Smith
Imperial College London, UK

Professor H.H. Snijder
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor W. Sobek
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor U. Starossek
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Professor R. Stroetmann
Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Professor C. Szymczak
Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

Professor T. Tarnai
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Professor J.G. Teng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor D. Thambiratnam
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Professor S. Timashev
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Professor J. Torero
University College London, UK

Professor V. Tvergaard
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Professor B. Uy
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor P. Van Bogaert
University of Ghent, Belgium

Professor B.W.J. van Rensburg
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Professor G.P.A.G. Van Zijl
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Professor R. Vaziri
University of British Columbia, Canada

Professor F. Virtuoso
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Professor T. Vogel
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Professor M.A. Wadee
Imperial College London, UK

Professor F. Wald
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professor J.C. Walraven
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor Y. Wang
University of Manchester, UK

Professor M.J. Whelan
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Professor M. Wiercigroch
University of Aberdeen, UK

Professor A.C. Wijeyewickrema
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Professor E. Williamson
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Professor W. Witkowski
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Professor J. Yang
RMIT University, Australia

Professor Y.B. Yang
National Taiwan University, China

Professor D. Yankelevsky
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Professor B. Young
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor T. Yu
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor R. Zandonini
University of Trento, Italy

Professor M.W. Zehn
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Professor R.R. Zhang
Colorado School of Mines, USA

Professor W. Zhu
University of Maryland, USA

Professor A. Zingoni
University of Cape Town, South Africa