Urban Transport 2020 - Call for papers

26th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment

8–10 September 2020
Bilbao, Spain

Introduction
The International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has successfully been reconvened for 26 years, always attracting a wide international spread of delegates. It is well-established as the premier event of its type.

The continuing requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environment has added to the increasing success of this annual meeting which attracts international delegates from many different countries. Innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice, which highlights the importance of the meeting. Moreover, there is a growing need for integration with telecommunications systems and IT applications in order to improve safety, security and efficiency. The meeting also addresses the need to solve important pollution problems associated with urban transport in order to achieve a healthier environment.

The variety of topics covered by the conference reflects the complex interaction of the urban transport systems with their environment and the need to establish integrated strategies. The aim is to arrive at optimal socio-economic solutions while reducing the negative environmental impacts of current transportation systems.

The conference started in Southampton in 1995; continuing in Barcelona (1996); Acquasparta, Italy (1997); Lisbon (1998); Rhodes (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Lemnos, Greece (2001); Seville (2002); Crete (2003); Dresden (2004); Algarve (2005); WIT Campus in the New Forest (2006); Coimbra (2007); Malta (2008); Bologna (2009); Limassol (2010); Pisa (2011), A Coruña (2012), Kos (2013), Algarve (2014), Valencia (2015), Crete (2016), Rome (2017), Seville (2018) and Aveiro (2019). All papers are included in the WIT Transactions and archived in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary at http://www.witpress.com/elibrary, where they are permanently and easily available to the international community.

Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Urban Transport 2020. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

•     Urban transport planning, control, management and land use
•     Mobility and public space
•     Smart city transport
•     Aerial urban transportation
•     City logistics
•     Freight transport
•     Public transport systems, policies and governance
•     Environmental impact
•     Economic and social impact
•     Railway systems
•     Innovative transport systems and ecomobility
•     Integrated network systems and intermodal transport systems
•     Innovative electric transportation
•     Traditional and alternative fuels and energy
•     Safety and security in transportation
•     Travel behaviour studies
•     Transport modelling and simulation
•     Transportation infrastructure development
•     Intelligent and advanced transport systems
•     Mass transport strategies
•     Transdisciplinary approaches to transportation studies
•     Life cycle assessment
•     Accessible and inclusive transport
•     Case studies

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Eco-Architecture 2020 - Call for Papers

8th International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature

7–9 September 2020
Bilbao, Spain

Introduction
The objective of this Conference is to review the challenges and new opportunities for contemporary architecture. These are a result of advances in design and new building technologies, as well as the development of new materials.

Many of the changes are motivated by a drive towards eco-architecture, trying to harmonise architectural products with nature. Another important issue is the adaptation of the architectural design to the natural environment, learning from nature and traditional construction techniques.

Contemporary architecture is at the threshold of a new stage of evolution, deeply influenced by the advances in information and computer systems and the development of new materials and products, as well as construction processes that will drastically change the industry.

Emphasis is placed on the minimum use of energy at each stage of the building process, the design by passive systems, life cycle assessment, resources optimisation and rehabilitation.

Never before in history have architects and engineers had such a range of new processes and products open to them. In spite of that, the construction industry lags behind all others in taking advantage of a wide variety of new technologies. This is understandable, due to the inherent complexity and uniqueness of each architectural project. Advances in computer and information systems, including robotics, offers the possibility of developing new architectural forms, construction products and building technologies which are just now starting to emerge.

Changes have also taken place in the way modern society works and lives, due to the impact of modern technologies. Patterns of work have been disrupted and changed, affecting transportation and the home environment. The demand is for a new type of habitat that can respond to the changes and the consequent requirements in terms of the urban environment.

The conference will deal with topics such as building technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, cultural sensitivity, life cycle assessment, resources and rehabilitation and many others including case studies from many different places around the world. The list of topics gives an idea of the scope of the meeting, papers on other topics relating to the conference objectives are welcome.

All conference papers are archived online in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Architecture is very multi-disciplinary, attracting many different professions. In this regard the conference participants are expected to be engineers, planners, computer experts, physical scientists, sociologists and economists, as well as architects, providing all of them an opportunity to share information and ideas with their colleagues from different regions of the world.

The eighth International Conference follows the seven successful meetings which started in the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute of Technology, in 2006; and followed in the Algarve (2008); A Coruna (2010), the island of Kos (2012), Siena (2014), Alicante (2016), New Forest, UK (2018).

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Eco-Architecture 2020. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

Design

•     Design with nature
•     Passive systems
•     Building information modelling
•     Bioclimatic design
•     Transformative design
•     Contemporary habitat typologies
•     Smart houses
•     Building flexibility
•     Adapted reuse
•     Sustainability indices in architecture
•     Circular economy

Building technology

•     Innovative materials and products
•     Green facades
•     Integrated renewable systems
•     Advanced building envelope
•     Performance assessment
•     Regenerative buildings
•     Ecological impacts of materials
•     Life cycle assessment and durability
•     Recycle, reuse, reduce and recovery
•     Eco-design and Eco-labelling

Built environment

•     Design and construction integration
•     Flexible housing
•     Floating buildings
•     Tall buildings and environment
•     Energy performance

Society

•     Community participation
•     Education and training
•     End-use energy efficiency
•     Consumer engagement
•     Occupants’ behaviour
•     Houses as a working environment
•     Management and maintenance
•     Ecological and cultural sensitivity
•     Impact of technology
•     Post-occupancy evaluation
•     Urban landscaping, agriculture and green spaces

Case studies

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HPSM/OPTI 2020 - Call for Papers

10th International Conference on High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials

2–4 September 2020 (Revised Dates)
Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction
The use of novel materials and new structural concepts nowadays is not restricted to highly technical areas like aerospace, aeronautical applications or the automotive industry, but affects all engineering fields including those such as civil engineering and architecture.

The conference addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts or new materials and their system design. Contributions will highlight the latest development in design, optimisation, manufacturing and experimentation in those areas. The meeting also aims to search for higher performance sustainable materials.

Most high performance structures require the development of a generation of new materials, which can more easily resist a range of external stimuli or react in a non-conventional manner. Particular emphasis will be placed on intelligent structures and materials as well as the application of computational methods for their modelling, control and management.

The conference also addresses the topic of design optimisation. Contributions on numerical methods and different optimisation techniques are also welcome, as well as papers on new software. Optimisation problems of interest to the meeting involve those related to size, shape and topology of structures and materials. Optimisation techniques have much to offer to those involved in the design of new industrial products.

The development of new algorithms and the appearance of powerful commercial computer codes with easy to use graphical interfaces has created a fertile field for the incorporation of optimisation in the design process in all engineering disciplines.

This scientific event is a new edition of the High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials Conference and follows the success of a number of meetings on structures and materials and on optimum design that originated in Southampton as long ago as 1989. As the meetings evolved they gave rise to the current series, which started in Seville in 2002, and followed by Ancona in 2004, Ostend in 2006, the Algarve in 2008, Tallinn in 2010, the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute in 2012, Ostend in 2014, Siena in 2016 and Ljubljana in 2018.

The meeting will provide a friendly and useful forum for the interchange of ideas and interaction amongst researchers, designers and scholars in the community to share advances in the scientific fields related to the conference topics.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at HPSM/OPTI 2020. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the conference are welcome

•     Composite materials
•     Material characterisation
•     Experiments and numerical analysis
•     Natural fibre composites
•     Nanocomposites
•     Green composites
•     Composites for automotive applications
•     Transformable structures
•     Environmentally friendly and sustainable structures
•     Structural optimisation
•     Reliability based design optimisation
•     Non deterministic approaches
•     Evolutionary methods in optimisation
•     Aerospace structures
•     Biomechanics application
•     Structures under extreme loading
•     Surface modification
•     Lightweight structures
•     Design for sustainability
•     Design for durability
•     Lifecycle assessment
•     Structural reliability
•     Smart materials and structures
•     Optimization of civil engineering structures
•     Optimization in mechanical engineering
•     Optimization in the car industry
•     Design optimization of tall buildings
•     Metaheuristic algorithms
•     New algorithms for size and topology optimisation
•     BIM tools for design optimization
•     Emerging materials
•     Case Studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

AFM 2020 - Call for Papers

13th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics

1–3 September 2020 (Revised Dates)
Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction
AFM 2020 is the 13th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics. The meeting is reconvened following the success of all previous conferences in the series, the first of which took place in New Orleans (1996), followed by Udine (1998); Montreal (2000); Ghent (2002); Lisboa (2004); Skiathos (2006); the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2008); The Algarve (2010); Split (2012); A Coruña (2014), Ancona (2016) and Ljubljana (2018).

The success of the Conference continues to attract high-quality contributions presenting original results. The evolution of the meeting is reflected in the variety of topics and applications published in the conference book series since its beginnings in 1996.

The field of fluid mechanics is vast and has numerous and diverse applications. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including basic formulations and their computer modelling as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results. The emphasis is on new applications and research currently in progress.

The papers – like others presented at Wessex Institute conferences – are part of the WIT Transactions in Engineering Sciences series and are archived online in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely available to the international scientific community.

The objective of the meeting is to provide a forum for discussing new work in fluid mechanics and, in particular, for promoting the interchange of new ideas and the presentation on the latest applications in the field.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at AFM 2020. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the conference are welcome

•     Computational methods
•     Boundary elements and other mesh reduction methods
•     Fluid structure interaction
•     Multiphase heat transfer
•     Environmental fluid dynamics
•     Industrial applications
•     Energy harvesting
•     Nano and micro fluids
•     Complex flows
•     Jets
•     Droplet and spray dynamics
•     Bubble dynamics
•     Multiphase fluid flow
•     Pumping and fluid transportation
•     Experimental measurements
•     Complex and non-Newtonian fluids
•     Chemical reaction flow
•     Hydroelectromagnetic flow
•     Hypersonic flows
•     Wave theory
•     Acoustics of noise propagation
•     Theoretical methods
•     Nanotechnology applications in fluids and heat transfer
•     Bluff body aerodynamics
•     Aerodynamic shape optimization
•     Case Studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

Sustainable Tourism 2020 - Call for Papers

9th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism

8–10 July 2020
Online

Introduction
Sustainable Tourism 2020 is the ninth meeting organised in this successful series. The first was held in Segovia (2004), followed by Bologna (2006), Malta (2008), the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2010), A Coruña (2012), Opatija, Croatia (2014), Valencia (2016) and Vienna (2018).

Today, tourism is an important component of development, not only in economic terms but also for knowledge and human welfare. Tourism today is an activity accessible to a growing number of people.

The phenomenon has many more advantages than disadvantages. New forms of economic development and increasing wealth of human societies depend on tourism. Our knowledge of the world now includes a strong component due to tourism. Human welfare has physiological and psychological elements, which tourism promotes, both because of the enjoyment of knowing new territories and increasing contacts with near or far away societies and cultures.

The tourism industry has nevertheless given rise to some serious concerns, including social costs and ecological impacts. Many ancient local cultures have practically lost their identity. Their societies have orientated their economy only to this industry. Both the natural and cultural – rural or urban – landscapes have also paid a high price for certain forms of tourism. These problems will persist if the economic benefit is the only target, leading to economic gains that eventually become ruinous. It is also important to consider that visitors nowadays are increasingly demanding in cultural and environmental terms.

Never before have transport and communication links been so important as today. Natural ecosystems are now a rarity on the planet and ecologists talk today about ‘socio-ecosystems’. Given this, tourism and environmental education are facing a major challenge.

Tourism also plays an important role in the natural environmental changes that are strongly affected by technological and social developments. Natural changes are inherent in the Earth’s ecosystem (the ‘ecosphere’). Also, technological and social changes are inherent to mankind (the ‘noosphere’) and are now becoming widespread. Cities are growing rapidly and industry requires increasingly larger areas. Many traditional rural areas are being abandoned. However, many historic agricultural districts have maintained, or even recovered, their local population numbers through intelligent strategies of tourism focused on nature and rural culture. Natural landscapes and biodiversity are becoming increasingly appreciated. The tourism industry must be able to respond to these aspirations.

Sustainable Tourism 2020 aims to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of new solutions which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. This can be achieved through new strategies involving the active collaboration of society as a whole.

All papers presented at previous Sustainable Tourism Conferences as well as all other meetings organised by the Wessex Institute since 1993 are freely available in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary).

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

•     Tourism strategies
•     Environmental issues
•     Climate change
•     Safety and security
•     Tourism as a tool of development
•     Heritage tourism
•     Marine and coastal areas tourism
•     Sport tourism
•     Tourism impact
•     Tourism and protected areas
•     Ecotourism
•     Rural tourism
•     Tourism and technology
•     Industrial tourism
•     Transport and tourism
•     Education and tourism
•     Destination management
•     eTourism
•     Simulation models
•     Social and physical infrastructure
•     Gastronomic tourism
•     The role of the landscape on tourism
•     Dark tourism
•     Project image
•     Sustainability assessments
•     Cultural tourism
•     Medical and health tourism
•     Tourism and nature
•     The role of local communities
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

Waste Management 2020 - Call for Papers

10th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment

7–9 July 2020
Online

Introduction
The International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment is organised every two years by the Wessex Institute. This ninth conference follows the success of previous meetings held in Cadiz (2002); Rhodes (2004); Malta (2006); Granada (2008); Tallinn (2010); the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2012); Ancona (2014); Valencia (2016) and Seville (2018).

The conference provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information and works on the current situation of waste management amongst professionals, researchers, government departments and local authorities.

Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste.

Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This requires further investigation into disposal methods and recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills, industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories.

This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education.

Unfortunately, many of the policies adopted in the past were aimed at short term solutions without due regard to the long term implications on health and the environment, leading in many cases to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action.

The desired direction of Waste Management is towards sustainable strategies. The approach which has emerged as the most promising has been called 4Rs, where reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery are seen as the best actions. This largely decreases the volume of waste that needs final disposal. Recovery refers to the establishment of two new classifications, those of Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) and of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). They both relate to useful products obtained from waste and make a shift from the mere recycle or reuse – mostly seen as a way to reduce dumping – to the valuable employment of such matter within the production cycle.

More recently these concepts have given rise to the new model of the ‘Circular Economy’, which is based on the reuse of what up to now has been considered waste, reintroducing them into the production cycle. The objective of the circular economy is to reduce consumption and achieve savings in the use of raw materials, water and energy, throughout all processing phases and during production, which ought to be as efficient as possible.

Another aspect of this revolution is happening subtly and gradually by people buying waste; particularly eWaste and some types of plastic, the so-called technical waste. This is happening due to the strong demand and high price of certain new materials and the possibility of sorting out waste in developing regions of the world. As a result, a market in Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) has developed.

A major cause of concern is the implications of waste management on health and the environment. The conference discusses some of these topics and the need to arrive at suitable strategies to waste management.

Further steps are required towards the improvement of current technologies, increased collaboration between the public, government and private sectors and increased involvement of all stakeholders.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

•     Environmental impact
•     Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery (4Rs)
•     The circular economy
•     Secondary raw materials (SRM)
•     Energy from waste
•     Industrial waste management
•     Hazardous waste
•     Agricultural waste
•     Wastewater
•     eWaste
•     Landfill design and management
•     Waste monitoring
•     Thermal treatment
•     Environmental remediation
•     Municipal waste management
•     Behavioural issues
•     Health care waste
•     Decommissioning
•     Radioactive waste management
•     Waste treatment technologies and innovation
•     Emerging issues in waste management
•     Organic waste management
•     Water microbiology & bio-hydrometallurgy
•     Case studies

Find out more on the conference webpage.

COMPRAIL 2020 - Call for Papers

17th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design & Operation

1–3 July 2020
Online

Introduction
The 17th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL 2020), is the latest in a series of very successful meetings which started in Frankfurt in 1987 and continued in Rome (1990); Washington (1992); Madrid (1994); Berlin (1996); Lisbon (1998); Bologna (2000); Lemnos (2002); Dresden (2004); Prague (2006); Toledo (2008); Beijing (2010); the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2012) ; Rome (2014), Madrid (2016) and Lisbon (2018).

The meeting is organised by the Wessex Institute and sponsored by WIT Transactions on the Built Environment and the International Journal of Transport Development and Integration.

The conference aims to update the use of advanced systems, promoting their general awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and transit systems. It emphasises the use of computer systems in advanced railway engineering.

The meeting attracts a variety of specialists interested in the development of railways, including managers, consultants, railway engineers, designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists. It provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners involved in railway engineering to present and discuss the latest developments.

Since 1993 all published papers are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely available to the international community.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at COMPRAIL 2020. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

•     Advanced train control
•     Operational quality
•     Risk management
•     Planning and policy
•     Monitoring and maintenance
•     Energy efficiency and power supply
•     Signalling and train control systems
•     Timetabling and rescheduling
•     Safety and security
•     Vehicle dynamics
•     Driverless and automatic train operation
•     System integration
•     High-speed technology
•     Interoperability
•     Modelling and simulation
•     Multi-modal integration
•     Magnetic levitation vehicles
•     Telecommunications in rail transport
•     Freight transport
•     Real-time operations
•     Ticketing
•     Single track traffic
•     Track design and maintenance strategies
•     Intelligent railway systems
•     Road and rail synergy
•     Electrical railroad
•     Railway logistics
•     Passenger guidance and user behaviour
•     High-density rails
•     Railway resilience
•     Environmental impact and CO2 reduction
•     IoT applications to railway vehicles
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

Risk Analysis 2020 - Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation

23–25 June 2020
Online

Introduction
Risk Analysis 2020 is the 12th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation. Risk Analysis 2020 follows on from the other successful meetings in this series, which first started in Valencia, Spain (1998) and continued in Bologna, Italy (2000); Sintra, Portugal (2002); Rhodes, Greece (2004); Malta (2006); Cephalonia, Greece (2008); Algarve, Portugal (2010); the island of Brac in Croatia (2012), the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute of Technology (2014), Crete, Greece (2016) and Seville, Spain (2018).

The conference covers a series of important topics of current research interests and many practical applications. It is concerned with all aspects of risk analysis and hazard mitigation, associated with both natural and anthropogenic hazards.

Current events help to emphasise the importance of the analysis and management of risk to planners and researchers around the world. Natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, fires and others have always affected human societies. The more recent emergence of the importance of man-made hazards is a consequence of the rapid technological advances made in the last few centuries. The interaction of natural and anthropogenic risks adds to the complexity of the problems.

The papers presented at the Risk Analysis Conferences cover a variety of topics related to risk analysis and hazard mitigation. They are published as volumes of WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, which is widely disseminated around the world in both hardcover and digital formats. Furthermore, all the papers are also archived in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely and permanently available to the international scientific community.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the Conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

•     Risk analysis, assessment and management
•     Early warning and vulnerability
•     Temporal and spatial aspects of risk
•     Disaster management
•     Vulnerability assessment
•     Health risk
•     Natural disasters (climate change, earthquakes, floods)
•     Engineering risk (construction and transportation)
•     Safety and security
•     Evacuation, simulation and design
•     Political and socio-economic risk
•     Community and economic resilience
•     Communication of risk
•     Insurance
•     Economic risk
•     Cyber risk
•     Risk in critical infrastructures
•     Fire planning
•     Environmental security
•     Risk management in the oil and gas industry
•     Advances in fundamentals of risk analysis
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

SUSI 2020 - Call for Papers

16th International Conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact

22–24 June 2020
Online

Introduction
SUSI 2020 is the 16th International Conference in the successful series of Structures Under Shock and Impact. The first conference started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1989) and continued in Portsmouth, UK (1992); Madrid, Spain (1994); Udine, Italy (1996); Thessaloniki, Greece (1998); Cambridge, UK (2000); Montreal (2002); Crete (2004); the New Forest, home to the Wessex Institute (2006); the Algarve, Portugal (2008); Tallinn, Estonia (2010), Kos, Greece (2012); The New Forest, UK (2014); Crete, Greece (2016) and Seville, Spain (2018).

The increasing need to protect civilian infrastructure and industrial facilities against unintentional loads arising from accidental impact and explosion events as well as terrorist attacks is reflected in the sustained interest in the SUSI meetings over three decades. While advances have been made over this period, many challenges remain, such as to develop more effective and efficient blast and impact mitigation approaches than those that currently exist. The primary focus remains the survivability of physical facilities and the protection of people, as well as reducing economic losses and impact on the environment, with emphasis on innovative protective technologies to support the needs of an economically growing, modern society. The application of this technology ranges from the safe transportation of people and dangerous materials to defences against natural hazards such as floods, wind, storms, tsunamis and earthquakes.

Large scale testing is prohibitive and small scale laboratory testing results in scaling uncertainties. Continuing research is therefore essential to improve knowledge on how these structures behave under a variety of load actions, some of which interact making it even more complex and difficult to define. Consequently, more use of advanced numerical simulations for load and structural response calculations is common practice in industry and research. Such calculations can directly be used in design and risk assessment calculations, but also be applied to more simplified design tools and design codes. Whether numerical or analytical modelling techniques are employed, experimental validation is vital for there to be acceptance of the approach to be used. The SUSI meeting over the years has fulfilled many objectives, not least to provide a forum for the exchange of research ideas and results to promote a better understanding of these critical issues relating to the testing behaviour, modelling and analyses of protective structures against blast and impact loading.

It is the objective of these meetings to bring together scientists and engineers from a wide range of academic disciplines and industrial backgrounds who have an interest in the structural impact and blast response of structures and materials. In this way, the major developments in different areas can be brought to the attention of the entire community.

All papers presented at the SUSI conference since 1994 are archived in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are accessible to the international community.

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the Conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome

•     Impact and blast loading
•     Energy absorbing issues
•     Computational and experimental results
•     Response of reinforced concrete under impact
•     Response of buildings to blast
•     Seismic behaviour
•     Protection of existing structures
•     Industrial accidents and explosions
•     Hazard mitigation and assessment
•     Security issues
•     Response of composite structures to blast and impact
•     Vehicle impact
•     Ballistics analysis
•     Dynamic material behaviour
•     Structural design against multiple based activities
•     Fluid-structure interaction
•     Multiphysics coupled problems
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

Energy Production and Management 2020 - Call for Papers

4th International Conference on Energy Production and Management: The Quest for Sustainable Energy

16–18 June 2020
Online

Introduction
The 4th International Conference on Energy Production and Management follows the very successful meetings held in Ekaterinburg (2014), Ancona (2016) and New Forest, UK (2018), home of the Wessex Institute. The aim of the meeting is to discuss the future of energy production, operation and management in a changing world.

The objective is to compare conventional energy sources, particularly hydrocarbons, with a number of other ways of producing energy, emphasising new technological developments, based on renewable resources such as solar, hydro, wind and geothermal.

A key issue is the conversion of new sustainable sources of energy into useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) while finding efficient ways of storage and distribution. In many cases, the challenges lie as much with the production of such renewable energy at an acceptable cost, including damage to the environment, as with the integration of those resources into the existing infrastructure.

The changes required to progress from an economy based mainly on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources are massive and require considerable scientific research as well as the development of advanced engineering systems. Such progress demands close collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions.

The Conference also discusses the energy use of industrial processes, including the imbedded energy contents of materials, such as those in the built environment. Energy production, operation, distribution and usage, result in environmental risks which need to be better understood. They are part of the energy economics and relate to human environmental health as well as ecosystems behaviour.

An important objective of the conference is to discuss ways in which more efficient use can be made of conventional as well as new energy sources. This relates to savings in energy consumption, reduction of energy losses, as well as the implementation of smart devices and the design of intelligent distribution networks.

All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community.

Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the Conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

•     Energy policies
•     Energy management and economics
•     Energy conversion and generation
•     Energy efficiency
•     Energy sustainability
•     Energy safety and security
•     Smart grids
•     Energy transmission and distribution
•     Processing of coal, oil and gas
•     GHG emissions
•     Renewable energies
•     Biomass and biofuels
•     Solar energy: Thermal, photovoltaic, high -T
•     Offshore and inland wind farm technologies
•     Green power plants
•     Geothermal energy
•     Waste to energy
•     Energy and the built environment
•     Energy storage
•     Automation of energy systems
•     Hybrid energy systems
•     Energy recovery
•     Nuclear energy
•     Environmental impact
•     Energy and climate change
•     Environmental sustainability
•     Energy business
•     Role of LNG
•     Case studies

Find out more on the conference webpage.

Environmental Impact 2020 - Call for Papers

5th International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development

10–12 June 2020
Online

Introduction
The 5th International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development follows the success of four previous meetings held in the New Forest, UK, (home of the Wessex Institute of Technology) in 2012; Ancona, Italy in 2014; Valencia, Spain in 2016; and Naples, Italy in 2018.

The meeting will provide an international forum to discuss the most serious problems affecting sustainable development. The Conference will consider the impact of economic constraints on the environment, taking into account the social aspects as well as the over-use of natural resources. Uncontrolled development can also result in damage to the environment in terms of the release of toxic substances and hazardous waste.

The meeting will examine issues related to whether some forms of development are compatible with environmental protection, particularly in cases of possible serious contamination and toxicity.

The conference will address problems of great importance discussing more constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability. A major motivation for the meeting is to learn from past failure, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while attempting to prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems.

Fundamental to these concepts is the analysis of the inherent risk and the development of appropriate strategies.

All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community

Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Environmental Impact 2020. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

•     Environmental policies and planning
•     Environmental assessments
•     Human factors
•     Sustainable cities
•     Economic issues
•     Natural resources management
•     Energy and the environment
•     Food production systems and policies
•     Ecosystems preservation
•     Soil pollution
•     Remediation strategies
•     Decommission planning
•     Hazardous plants
•     Brownfields rehabilitation
•     Air and water pollution
•     Health effects
•     Public communication and involvement
•     Legislation and regulations
•     Sustainable development goals
•     Life cycle assessments
•     Irrigation
•     Food recovery
•     Stakeholders involvement
•     Institutional issues
•     Environmental management systems
•     Consumption vs sustainability
•     Social-ecological issues
•     Sustainability appraisals
•     Environmental strategies and tactics
•     Food waste reduction and impact on the environment
•     Adaptation to environmental damage
•     Coastal zones impacts
•     Social participation of environmental licensing
•     Nonlinear regression analysis
•     UN Sustainable Development Goals
•     Case studies

Find out more on the conference webpage.

Islamic Heritage 2020 - Call for Papers

3rd International Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art

9–11 June 2020
Online

Introduction
The conference aims to highlight the importance of Islamic heritage architecture and art to the world and its influence across different regions.

The meeting will deal with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries, including not only the better known public buildings like mosques, mausolea, citadels and forts, but also houses and gardens, engineering works such as bridges and dams, irrigation systems and many others which have also had a profound impact on society.

Islamic architecture has enriched design with a wide variety of structural shapes, including among others, unique arches, a wide variety of vaults and domes which allow for new forms to be developed. The influence that these structural forms have in non-Islamic countries will be one of the themes of the conference.

There is much to learn from past experiences to arrive at solutions which are environmentally sound and sustainable in the long term. As conventional energy resources become scarce, the Islamic design heritage can offer invaluable lessons on how to deal in an efficient manner with cases of hard and extreme environments.

Traditional architecture and urban environments in most Islamic countries are now being eroded by overemphasis on a global type of architecture and city planning. As a consequence, many regions are losing their identity. The Conference will aim to review these developments in the light of what the classical Islamic urban designs and architectures have to offer modern society.

An equally important part of the meeting will analyse the materials employed and the types of structural elements, particularly those unique to Islamic architecture. Associated topics of discussion will include music, textiles and ceramics, which are essential parts of the architectural fabric. The conference will encompass papers on construction materials, including not only stone and brick but also more perishable materials like adobe, wood and reeds.

Preserving that heritage also requires the development of appropriate conservation techniques in response to the different materials used and the ways structural forms work, including under extreme conditions, such as earthquakes.

Papers relevant to the influence of Islamic architecture on the development of new structural form, shape and design in Western countries are particularly welcome.

The meeting will be of interest to all researchers, practitioners and government employees actively involved in the topic of Islamic heritage architecture and art.

Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the Conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

•     Historical aspects
•     Heritage studies
•     Archaeological studies
•     Mosques and minarets
•     Conservation and restoration
•     Citadels and fortifications
•     Urban environment
•     Baths and Caravanserais
•     Palaces
•     Houses and gardens
•     Bridges and dams
•     Irrigation systems
•     Climate adaptability
•     Structural characteristics
•     The use of light and orientation
•     Construction materials
•     Oman and Eastern Saudi Arabian architecture
•     Architecture in Malaysia and Indonesia
•     Mediterranean Islamic heritage
•     The upper Gulf (Kuwait and Basra)
•     The central Gulf (Bahrain and Qatar)
•     The lower Gulf architecture
•     The Persian coast and islands
•     The Trucial coast (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Northern Emirates)
•     Classical Ottoman architecture
•     The Balkans legacy
•     The Black and Caspian sea legacies
•     Islamic architecture along the Silk Road
•     Islamic architecture in China
•     Afghanistan and Persia
•     Islamic architecture in the ex-Soviet republics
•     The Indian continent
•     Islamic architecture in Al-Andalus and other Spanish regions
•     Influences in the Americas
•     Islamic architecture in Africa
•     New cities and the search for authenticity
•     Islamic architecture in Far East countries
•     Cross-cultural encounters
•     Travel writings
•     Art and literature
•     Contemporary forms of Islamic arts
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.

Air Pollution 2020 - Call for Papers

28th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution

8–10 June 2020
Online

Introduction
Air Pollution 2020 is the 28th annual meeting in the successful series of international conferences organised by the Wessex Institute dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution.

The meetings in this series have discussed and considered many important air pollution issues and the international nature of the attendees has ensured that the conference findings and conclusions enjoy wide and rapid dissemination amongst the air pollution science and policy communities. Air pollution issues remain one of the most challenging problems facing the international community. The series has demonstrated the wide-spread nature of the air pollution phenomena and has explored in depth their impacts on human health and the environment.

The scientific knowledge derived from well-designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies in order to ensure cost-effective and efficient mitigation. In turn, the science, technology and economic outcomes are necessary but not sufficient. Increasingly, the conference has recognised that the outcome of such research needs to be contextualised within well-formulated communication strategies that help policy makers and citizens to understand and appreciate the risks and rewards arising from air pollution management. Consequently, the series has enjoyed a wide range of high-quality papers that develop the fundamental science of air pollution and an equally impressive range of presentations that places these new developments within the frame of mitigation and management of air pollution.

This important conference brings together contributions from scientists from around the world to present recent work on various aspects of air pollution phenomena. Notable in each of the conferences in this series has been the opportunity to foster scientific exchange between participants. Each meeting has provided a further opportunity for identifying new areas of air pollution science demanding a collaborative investigation.

These meetings have attracted outstanding contributions from leading researchers. The papers selected for presentation and included in the Conference Proceedings have been permanently stored in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) from where they can be freely downloaded. These collected papers provide an invaluable record of the development of science and policy pertaining to air pollution.

The series started in Mexico (1993) and continued in Barcelona (1994); Halkidiki (1995); Toulouse (1996); Bologna (1997); Genova (1998); San Francisco (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Ancona (2001); Segovia (2002); Catania (2003); Rhodes (2004); Cordoba (2005); New Forest (2006); Algarve (2007); Skiathos (2008); Tallinn (2009); Kos (2010); Malta (2011); A Coruna (2012); Siena (2013); Split (2014); Valencia (2015); Crete (2016); Cadiz (2017), Naples (2018) and Aveiro (2019).

Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Air Pollution 2020. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

•     Air pollution modelling
•     Aerosols and particles
•     Emission studies
•     Health effects
•     Indoor air pollution
•     Monitoring and measuring
•     Air pollution control technologies
•     Industrial air pollution
•     Global, regional and local studies
•     Climate change effects
•     Emerging pollutants
•     Air pollution management, policy and legislation
•     Socio-economic issues
•     Public engagement
•     Emerging technologies
•     Respirables
•     Nanoparticles
•     Biohazards
•     Secondary pollutants
•     Biogenic emissions
•     Occupational exposure
•     Mobile sources
•     Biomass emissions
•     Valorisation
•     Atmospheric modelling
•     Pollution dynamics
•     Air quality forecasting using satellite data
•     Case studies

 Find out more on the conference webpage.