About us

The Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEM) is the unit of University of Aveiro focused on teaching, research and services for the community on the field of Mechanical Engineering. Research and development are mainly conducted under the DEM Research Unit, the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA). It is TEMA that gives to DEM an institutional profile where scientific research plays an important role. The main areas of activity include as main pillars: Automation, Thermal Fluid Sciences, Mechanical Technology, Mechanical Design, Applied and Computational Mechanics, and Nanoengineering. Other relevant areas of activity include Product Development, Biomechanics, Energy, and Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.

Organizing committee

Vítor António Ferreira da Costa (UA, Portugal)
António Manuel de Bastos Pereira (UA, Portugal)
Paula Alexandrina de Aguiar Pereira Marques (UA, Portugal)
Duncan Paul Fagg (UA, Portugal)
Igor Bdikin (UA, Portugal)
Gonzalo Guillermo Otero Irurueta (UA, Portugal)
Gil Alberto Batista Gonçalves (UA, Portugal)

Programme committee

Binay Kumar (University Delhi, India)
Manoj Kumar Singh (JAIN University, India)
Vladimir Bystrov    (IMPB-KIAM RAS, Russia)
Maxim Silibin    (MIET, Russia)
Dmitry Kiselev   (MISiS, Russia)
Sergei Bozhko (ISSP, Russia)
Philip R. LeDuc (CMECS, USA)
Bagautdinov Bagautdin (JASRI/SPring-8, Japan)
Vincent BALL   (Unibversité de Strasbourg, France)
Maciej Wojtaś (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
António Carlos Mendes de Sousa    (UA, Portugal)
Vítor António Ferreira da Costa      (UA, Portugal)
João Paulo Davim Tavares da Silva      (UA, Portugal)
Alfredo Manuel Balacó de Morais      (UA, Portugal)
Francisco José Malheiro Queirós de Melo (UA, Portugal)
Vítor Manuel Ferreira dos Santos   (UA, Portugal)
António Manuel Godinho Completo   (UA, Portugal)
António Gil Dorey de Andrade Campos    (UA, Portugal)
António Manuel de Amaral Monteiro Ramos (UA, Portugal)
António Manuel de Bastos Pereira   (UA, Portugal)
Carlos Alberto Moura Relvas (UA, Portugal)
Fernando José Neto da Silva   (UA, Portugal)
Joaquim Alexandre Mendes de Pinho da Cruz (UA, Portugal)
Jorge Augusto Fernandes Ferreira (UA, Portugal)
José Paulo Oliveira Santos (UA, Portugal)
Margarida Isabel Cabrita Marques Coelho (UA, Portugal)
Mónica Sandra Abrantes de Oliveira Correia (UA, Portugal)
Nelson Amadeu Dias Martins   (UA, Portugal)
Ricardo José Alves de Sousa (UA, Portugal)
Rui António da Silva Moreira (UA, Portugal)
Abel Fernando Queirós e Nascimento   (UA, Portugal)
José Carlos Pereira Pinto Noronha   (UA, Portugal)
Isabel Maria Alexandrino Duarte     (UA, Portugal)
Frédéric Gérard Barlat     (UA, Portugal)
Duncan Paul Fagg      (UA, Portugal)
Igor Bdikin     (UA, Portugal)
Paula Alexandrina de Aguiar Pereira Marques    (UA, Portugal)
Gonzalo Guillermo Otero Irurueta   (UA, Portugal)
Gil Alberto Batista Gonçalves (UA, Portugal)

Editorial Board

Igor Bdikin (UA, Portugal)
Budhendra Singh (UA, Portugal)

Technical Program Committee

Duncan Paul Fagg   (UA, Portugal)
Paula Alexandrina de Aguiar Pereira Marques   (UA, Portugal)
Igor Bdikin   (UA, Portugal)
Gonzalo Guillermo Otero Irurueta   (UA, Portugal)
Gil Alberto Batista Gonçalves (UA, Portugal)
Budhendra Singh    (UA, Portugal)
Raul Nunes Simões    (UA, Portugal)