Neapolis University participates in ECCOMAS2016

Neapolis University in Cyprus, participates in the organizing committee of the ECCOMAS Congress 2016 (VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering) ECCOMAS2016. During the congress, 2500 research works will be presented, on the following topics:

• Biological systems
• Damage, fracture and failure
• Discretization methods, grid, mesh and solid generation
• Flow problems
• High performance computing
• Interdisciplinary coupled and contact problems
• Materials
• Multiscale problems
• Numerical simulation methods
• Optimization, inverse problems and control
• Reduction methods
• Structural stability and dynamics
• Uncertainty quantification and error estimation

According to the technical program, the following papers are affiliated with Neapolis:

Paper Presentations

1. ECOCEMENT: A NOVEL COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. IDENTIFICATION OF AN OPTIMAL RECIPE USING NEURAL NETWORKS Natia Anastasi, Nikolaos Bakas*, Piero Tiano, Jay Stuart, Linda Wittig, Javier Royo, Laura Sanchez, Oana Cuzman, Katharina Richter
2. SEISMIC RETROFIT OF INDUSTRIAL SILOS BY MEANS OF BASE ISOLATION DEVICES Alper Kanyilmaz*, Carlo Andrea Castiglioni, Julia Georgi
3. REGRESSION ANALYSIS VS GENETIC ALGORITHMS: COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY ASSESMENT ON THE DESIGN OF PROINDUSTRY PROJECT SSDC ISOLATORS UNDER INCREMENTAL DYNAMIC LOADING Nikolaos Bakas*, John Bellos, Alper Kanyilmaz, Spyros Makridakis
4. FORM FINDING ON PARAMETRIC SURFACES. OPTIMIZATION AND CORRELATIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL FLUIDITY AND STRUCTURAL RESPONSE Dimitrios Antoniou, Katerina Liapi, Nikolaos Bakas*, Ioakeim Liassides, Ioannis Georgiou, Nikolaos Varlagkas
5. HIGH COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH GENERIC ANALYTICAL FORMULATION FOR LINEAR SOIL PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION OF RIGID SPREAD RECTANGULAR FOOTINGS John Bellos*, Nikolaos P. Bakas

The fourth research work conducted with the contribution of Neapolis students Ioakeim Liassides, Ioannis Georgiou & Nikolaos Varlagkas, during the course Form Finding & Structural Optimization. Furthuremore, Neapolis is organizing the following minisymposia

Minisymposia

• MS 1224: INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE SEISMIC PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS MS Organizers: Walter Salvatore, Carlo Castiglioni, Francesco Morelli, Nikolaos Bakas Chair: Nikolaos Bakas, Francesco Morelli
• INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS FOR SEISMIC RESISTANT BUILDINGS MS Organizers: Carlo Castiglioni Chair: Francesco Morelli, Nikolaos Bakas

For more information on the congress, click here https://www.eccomas2016.org/

Presentations Programm: https://www.eccomas2016.org/files/uploads/general/ECCOMAS_2016_Technical_Programme.pdf