From 1st to 3rd of September 2015 COMPLAS 2015 took place at Campus Nord of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech. The XIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, Fundamentals and Applications brought together nearly 300 participants from 35 countries around the world.

The congress, organised by CIMNE, hold 18 plenary lectures, 23 contributed sessions and 237 papers about biomechanics and biomedicine, composites, industrial applications, innovative computational methods, nanomechanics, among other topics.

The conference co-chairmen were Eugenio Oñate, director of CIMNE; Michele Chiumentti, full research professor at CIMNE, and Roger Owen and Djordje Peric from Swansea University (United Kingdom).

The event included the participation of the ECCOMAS PhD Thesis awarded Pieter Coulier, from KU Leuven (Belgium). Coulier participated as lecturer at the plenary session “The Numerical Solution of Large Scale Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Problems”.  

The COMPLAS programme also included the participation of the following speakers: Olivier Allix (Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie, LMT-Cachan, France), Francisco Chinesta (École Centrale de Nantes, France), Eduardo de Souza Neto (Swansea University, UK), Antonio Gens (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech, Spain), Thomas J.R. Hughes (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), Dennis M. Kochmann (California Institute of Technology, USA), Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern University, USA), Antoinette Maniatty (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Christian Miehe (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Alan Needleman (University of North Texas, USA), Javier Oliver (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech, Spain), Michael Ortiz (California Institute of Technology, USA), Stefanie Reese (RWTH-Aachen University, Germany), Jörg Schröder (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Kenjiro Terada (Tohoku University, Japan), Peter Wriggers (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) and Zhuo Zhuang (Tsinghua University, China).

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