The First International Conference on Vehicle Body Engineering will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2023.
This conference will be chaired by Professor Lucas F. M. da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) and Dr. Eduardo A. S. Marques (INEGI, Portugal).
The focus of this conference is the study on the design of the structural components of the vehicle body and by including other transportation sectors (aerospace and railway). Novel research works carried out in various topics within these wider themes will be accepted.
Among the topics covered are:
-road vehicle structural design;
-aeronautical structural design;
-rolling stock structural design;
-material testing;
-structural testing;
-manufacture of complex structures;
-structural joining methods;
-structural monitoring;
-self-healing structures;
-numerical simulation of structures;
-numerical simulation of structural components;
-multibody simulation;
-impact performance of structures;
-dynamic behaviour of structures;
-durability of structures;
-fatigue design of complex structures;
-structural ligthtweighing techniques;
Abstract submission deadline
June 16, 2023
Notification of acceptance to authors
June 30, 2023
Early bird registration deadline
July 21, 2023
Full article submission deadline (not mandatory)
November 2, 2023
Call for papers
Download the abstract template
The abstracts (one-page) should be sent by June 16, 2023 to the organizing committee via email to lucas@fe.up.pt. Please indicate if you wish an oral or poster presentation and if you want your abstract to be included in the "Artificial Intelligence for Railway Safety: Advancements in Data Analysis" mini-symposium.
Conference chairmen
Lucas F. M. da Silva
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
lucas@fe.up.pt
Eduardo A. S. Marques
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
emarques@fe.up.pt
Organising committee
Ricardo J. C. Carbas
Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal
carbas@fe.up.pt
Alireza Akhavan-Safar
Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal
aakhavan-safar@inegi.up.pt
Scientific committee
Alessandro Scattina (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Andreas Oechsner (Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Andris Chate (Čate) (Riga Technical University, Latvia)
Araliya Mosleh (University of Porto, Portugal)
Brunetto Martorana (Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy)
Bruno Castanié (INSA Toulouse, France)
Carlos Chaves (EMBRAER, Brazil)
Fausto Freire (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Giovanni Belingardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Giuseppe Catalanotti (Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland)
Guangyong Sun (Hunan University, China)
José Correia (University of Porto, Portugal)
Krzysztof Żur (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)
Nicolas Carrere (ENSTA Bretagne, France)
Nuno Peixinho (University of Minho, Portugal)
Paulo Lage (Airbus, UK)
Paulo Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Rakesh Goyal (John Deere, United States)
Venkat Aitharaju (General Motors Company, United States)
William Altenhof (Engineering University of Windsor, Canada)
Wim Desmet (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Volnei Tita (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Xiao Han (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Yasuhiro Matsui (Japan Automobile Research Institute, Japan)
The conference programme will be made available after the end of the abstract acceptance period.
"Artificial intelligence for railway safety: Advancements in data analysis"
The VBE2023 conference will include a mini-symposium on artificial intelligence for railway safety, focusing on the advancements brought by data analysis. This mini-symposium aims to promote the use of advanced techniques in numerical analyses and experimental field tests to improve railway safety and efficiency and resilience. By bringing together experts from academia and industry, the symposium offers an opportunity to share insights and foster collaborations and partnerships towards more resilient and adaptive infrastructure systems.
This mini-symposium is organized by Araliya Mosleh (University of Porto, Portugal), Diogo Ribeiro (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal), Cecilia Vale (University of Porto, Portugal), Amir Garmabaki (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Abdollah Malekjafarian (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Pedro Montenegro (University of Porto, Portugal).
Within these sessions, the following issues will be addressed:
-Damage identification
-Wayside/drive-by condition monitoring
-Artificial Intelligence techniques
-Structural health monitoring (SHM)
-Big data
-Computer vision and image analysis
-Operation and maintenance
-Climate adaptation
-Climate-resilient infrastructure
Instructions for the preparation of posters
The posters should be supplied in A0 size (841 mm x 1189 mm) in portrait format. The text and illustrations should be legible at a distance of 2 meters. The posters will be available online on this website at the time of the conference. For remote presenters, links to videoconferencing will be available to allow direct contact between the poster's author and the other conference participants.
The best presentation and poster will be elected by a vote of the scientific board members and the winners will receive a free registration in the next edition of the VBE conference.