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	MS-000 General Papers
			If you do not have a prefered MS or could not find a proper one at this moment, you may simply submit your abastract/paper here. The conference Chairmen will assign your submission to a MS or a Session for presentation later.
	
																		Directors
				
								- Raj Das, University of Auckland
- GR Liu
		
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	MS-001 Theory and Formulation for Novel Computational Methods
			Welcome all papers on theory and basic formulations for novel computational methods
	
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	MS-002 Modelling and Simulation on Nanomechanics
	
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								- Hengan Wu, University of Science and Technology of China
		
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	MS-003  Smoothed Finite Element Methods
	
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								- Lei Chen, Mississippi State University
		
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	MS-004  Advanced Hydrodynamics Analysis for Offshore Platform
	
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								- Ping Lu, American Bureau of Shipping
		
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	MS-005 Computational Modeling of Advanced Materials
	
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								- Haimin Yao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
		
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	MS-006 Engineering Analysis and Design under Uncertainty
	
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								- Byeng Youn, Seoul National University
		
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	MS-007 Property Characterization of Nanomaterials through Multi-scale Simulations
	
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								- Ning Hu, Chiba University
		
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	MS-008 Computational Limit and Shakedown Analysis
	
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								- Canh Le, International University - VNU
		
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	MS-009 Computational Acoustics and Elastodynamics in Solids and Structures
	
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								- Weiqiu Chen, Zhejiang University
- Yue-Sheng Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University
- Chuanzeng Zhang, Universitat Siegen
		
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	MS-010 Adaptive Numerical Methods
	
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								- Nguyen-Xuan Hung, Vietnamese-German University
		
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	MS-011 Large Scale Coupled Problems and Related Topics
	
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								- Hiroshi Kanayama, Japan Women's University
- Masao Ogino, Nagoya University
- Ryuji Shioya, Toyo University
		
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	MS-012 Discrete Finite Element Method and Its Applications
	
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								- Mengyan Zang, South China University of Technology
		
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	MS-013 Numerical Methods and Applications in Reacting Flows
	
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								- Zhao Tian, University of Adelaide
		
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	MS-014 Advances in Weakened Weak (W2) Formulation Based Numerical Methods
	
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								- Xu Xu, Jilin University
- Guiyong Zhang, Dalian University of Technology
		
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	MS-015 Advanced Computational Methods in Underwater Acoustics
	
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								- Wei Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
		
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	MS-016 Large Deformation Problems of Building Structures
	
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								- Daigoro Isobe, University of Tsukuba
		
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	MS-017 Inverse Problems, Design and Optimisation under Uncertainties
	
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								- Zbigniew Buliński, Silesian University of Technology
- Marcelo Colaço, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- George S Dulikravich, Florida International University
- Helcio Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
		
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	MS-018 Numerical Modeling of Granular and Multiphase Flows
	
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								- Shunji Honma, Saitama UNiversity
- Mikio Sakai, The University of Tokyo
		
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	MS-019 Particle Based Methods
	
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								- Zhen Chen, Dalian University of Technology / University of Missouri
- Dongdong Wang, Xiamen University
- Xiong Zhang, Tsinghua University
		
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	MS-020 Modeling and Simulation of Cellular Migration: from Molecules to Multiple Cells
	
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								- Hiromi Miyoshi, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics
- Michiko Sugawara, Chiba University
- Ken-ichi Tsubota, Chiba University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-021 Parallel and Other High Performance Computing in the Solution of Partial Differential Equations
	
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								- Ismael Herrera, National Autonomous University of Mexico
		
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	MS-022 Multi-scale Computational Mechanics for Heterogeneous Materials
	
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								- Erick Saavedra Flores, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
		
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	MS-023 Computational Modeling of Human Body Injury
	
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								- Lixiang Yang, University of Cincinnati
		
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	MS-024 Advanced Computational Modelling of Fracture and Damage
	
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								- Raj Das, University of Auckland
		
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	MS-025 Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano- Biology
	
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								- Lihai Zhang, University of Melbourne
		
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	MS-026 Cohesive Fracture Modelling of Quasi-Brittle Materials
	
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								- Zhenjun Yang, Zhejiang University
		
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	MS-027 Computational Methods in Fluid-Structure Interactions
	
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								- Zhi-Qian Zhang, Institute of High Performance Computing
		
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	MS-028 Computational Modelling of Bio-related systems and Nanomaterials
	
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								- Yuan Cheng, Institute of High Performance Computing
- Baohua Ji, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Jingjie Yeo, Institute of High Performance Computing
- Yingyan Zhang, University of Western Sydney
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-029 A Probabilistic Approach in the Numerical Simulation of Deformation and Fracture of Solids
	
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								- Alexander Gerasimov, Tomsk State University
		
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	MS-030 Confidence and Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Mechanics
	
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								- Emilie SAURET, Queensland University of Technology
		
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	MS-031 Advanced Computational Modelling & Simulations In Safety
	
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								- Jerzy Malachowski, Military University of Technology
- Piotr Sielicki, Poznan University of Technology
		
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	MS-032 Topology Optimization of Structures and Materials
	
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								- Mike Xie, RMIT University
		
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	MS-033 Numerical Simulation for Stress Wave Propagation in Laminated Structures
	
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								- Wing Kong Chiu, Monash University
		
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	MS-034 Fracture Modeling in Functional and Multifield Smart Materials and Structures
	
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								- Tinh Quoc Bui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Sohichi Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Kuldeep Sharma, National Institute of Technology-Uttarakhand
- Chuanzeng Zhang, Universitat Siegen
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-035 Guided Waves for Defect Detection and Imaging, SHM, Temperature and Stress Evaluation
	
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								- Andrei Georgievich Kotousov, University of Adelaide
		
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	MS-036 Modelling of Crack Problems
	
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								- Andrei Georgievich Kotousov, University of Adelaide
		
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	MS-037 Numerical Modelling of Timber as a Material and/or Structure
	
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								- Amar Khennane, Australian Defense Force Academy
		
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	MS-038 Structural Health Monitoring and Identification of Structures
	
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								- Ching-Tai Ng, University of Adelaide
		
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	MS-039 Multiscale anf Multiphisics Modelling for Complex Materials
	
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								- Bernhard Schrefler, University of Padua
- Patrizia Trovalusci, Sapienza Universita Di Roma
		
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	MS-040 Computational Methods in Welding and Joining
	
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								- Zhao Zhang, Dalian University of Technology
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-041 Creep and Fatigue in Modelling Supported by Experiment
	
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								- Zbigniew Kowalewski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
		
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	MS-042 Recent Advances In Meshfree and Particle Methods
	
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								- Bin Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Seiichi Koshizuka, University of Tokyo
- Moubin Liu, Peking University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-043 Computational Modelling in Material Processing
	
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								- Cho-Pei Jiang, National Formosa University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-044 Numerical Methods for Fracture Mechanics
	
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								- Yong Jiang, Institute of High Performance Computing
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-045 Advances in Computational Geomechanics
	
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								- Ha BUI, Monash University
- Giang Nguyen, University of Adelaide
- Phu Nguyen, University of Adelaide
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-046 Multiscale Modelling of Advanced Engineering Materials
	
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								- Yang Xiang, University of Western Sydney
- Chunhui Yang, University of Western Sydney
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-047 Fatigue Cracking Modeling and Numerical Simulation
	
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								- Sheng-Chuan Wu, Southwest Jiaotong University
		
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	MS-048 Advanced Numerical Methods in Explosion and Shock Waves
	
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								- Dean Hu, Hunan University
- Cheng Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology
		
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	MS-049 Nanomechanics and Nanoscale Modelling
	
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								- Haifei Zhan, Queensland University of Technology
		
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	MS-050 Algorithms for Structural Control and Health Monitoring
	
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								- Geoff Chase, Univ of Canterbury
- Chris Pretty, University of Canterbury
- Geoffrey Rodgers, University of Canterbury
- Chao Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-051 Computations and Modelling of Multiphase Flows
	
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								- Yang-Yao Niu, Tamkang University
- Feng Xiao, Tokyo Institute of Technology
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-052 Computational Modelling of Hemodynamics
	
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								- Chang-Joon Lee, Macquarie University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-053 Advances and Applications of the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method
	
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								- Sundararajan Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
- Ean Tat Ooi, Federation University Australia
		
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	MS-054 Topology Optimization in Electromagnetic or Acoustic Fields
	
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								- Jeonghoon Yoo, Yonsei University
		
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	MS-055 Computational Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
	
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								- Yixiang Gan, University of Sydney
- Annan Zhou, RMIT University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-056 Engineering Inverse Problems
	
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								- Xu Han, Hunan University
- Chao Jiang, Hunan University
- Jie Liu, Hunan University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-057 Structural Uncertainty Modeling & Reliability Analysis
	
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								- Wei Gao, University of New South Wales
- Chao Jiang, Hunan University
- Zhan Kang, Dalian University of Technology
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-058 Soft Tissue Mechanics: Multi-Scale Modelling, Measurement, and Parameter Identification
	
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								- Martyn Nash, University of Auckland
- Poul Michael Fonss Nielsen, University of Auckland
- Michael Sacks, University of Texas at Austin
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-059 Numerical Modelling of Composite Structures Subjected to Extreme Loading Conditions
	
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								- Zhongwei Guan, University of Liverpool
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-060 Stochastic Dynamic Analysis and Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Performance Based Engineering
	
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								- Umberto Alibrandi, National University of Singapore
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-061 Concrete Structure Damage Due to Explosion
	
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								- Sau Cheong Fan, Nanyang Technological University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-062 Modeling and Simulation of High-Speed Multimaterial Flows
	
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								- Gustaaf Jacobs, San Diego State University
- H.S. Udaykumar, University of Iowa
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-063 The Impact of Emerging Supercomputer Architecture on Continuum Mechanics
	
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								- Rooh Khurram, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
		
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	MS-064 Effective Visualisation for Science through Big Data and Visual Analytics
	
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	MS-065 Stochastic Modelling and Probabilistic Engineering
	
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								- Chenfeng Li, Swansea University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-066 Urban Atmosphere Models and Their Applications
	
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								- Haiyan Miao, Institute of High Performance Computing
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-067 Hydraulic Fracturing: Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Simulation, and Engineering Aspects
	
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								- Zhanli Liu, Tsinghua University
- Yongxing Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-068 Medical Rapidprototyping and Tissue Engineering
	
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								- Abhaykumar Kuthe, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-069 New Horizons in FEM Analysis for Mechatronics in the Medical Applications
	
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								- Francesco Mammoliti, University of Catania and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Francesco Noto, Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nuclerare - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and University of Catania
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-070 CFD of Turbulence for Applied, Industrial, or Environmental Flows
	
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								- Lian Shen, University of  Minnesota
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-071 Advanced beam-column elements for modelling structures with large deformation
	
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								- Chin-Long Lee, University of Canterbury
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-072 Fluid-Structure Interactions in Aerospace Engineering
	
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								- Jianyao Yao, Chongqing University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-073 Numerical Methods and Applications in Geoscience and Geotechnics
	
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								- Yu Huang, Tongji University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-074 Design and Control of Flexible Smart Structures
	
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								- Shutian Liu, Dalian University of Technology
- Liyong Tong, University of Sydney
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-075 Advances in the Boundary Element Method and Its Applications
	
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								- Yijun Liu, University of Cincinnati / Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Jinyou Xiao, Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Wenjing Ye, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jianming Zhang, Hunan University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-076 High Performance Computing and Simulation of Multiphase Flows
	
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								- Don Liu, Louisiana Tech University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-077 Advances in Computational Modelling and Optimization for Impact and Blast Problems
	
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								- Jianguang Fang, University of Sydney
- Shujuan Hou, Hunan University
- Qing Li, The University of Sydney
- Guangyong Sun, Hunan University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-078 Advances in High-performance Finite Element Methods
	
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								- Song Cen, Tsinghua University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-079 Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis
	
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								- Julia Kar, Washington University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-080 Current Trends in Modelling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows
	
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								- Suad Jakirlic, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-081 Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
	
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								- Zhicheng He, Hunan University
- Quan Bing Eric Li, Jilin University
- Xu Xu, Jilin University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-082 Statistical Inverse Problems
	
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								- Taufiquar Khan, Clemson University
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-083 Analysis, Modelling and Simulation of Soft Active Materials
	
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								- Soo Jin Adrian Koh, National University of Singapore
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-084 Computational Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Tissues
	
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								- Justin Fernandez, University of Auckland
- Qing Li, The University of Sydney
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed | 
	
 	
	MS-085 Materials Constitutive Modelling: from Nano-scale to Continuum
	
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								- Gwenaelle Proust, The University of Sydney
		
			|  Open Submissions |  Peer Reviewed |