V.P. Lu, Y.-P. Li, and K.M. Mok, all the University of Macau. L.N. Lamas, National Civil Engineering Laboratory of Portugal (Formerly at the Civil Engineering Laboratory of Macau).

• Editors’ Foreword Preface, Keynote lecture: GBT-based computational approach to analyse the geometrically non-linear behaviour of steel and composite thin-walled members; Modeling cementitious materials behavior; Numerical modeling of metal forming – current practice and advanced applications; Recent advances in plate vibration research at the University of Hong Kong; Instabilities in deformation processes of solids; On various numerical simulation techniques for perforation of concrete panel by hard projectile; Applications of Toeplitz iterative solvers in science and engineering; Multiscale methods and its applications to Nano-mechanics and materials; On the duality between hybrid and block elements; Constitutive modelling of woven textile reinforcements and its application to high-pressure hydraulic hoses; High-accuracy difference and meshless methods for fluid and solid mechanics; Fuzzy finite element analysis of smart structures; Recent discoveries related to the use of Wittrick–Williams algorithm to solve transcendental eigenproblems; Wave barriers for reduction of train-induced vibrations; Advances in sparse solver for finite element analysis; Energy band analysis for periodical wave-guides; Numerical methods; Solid mechanics; Structural mechanics; Geotechnics; Geographical information systems; Artificial intelligence and software engineering; Software technology; Computer-aided design, engineering and instruction; Computer-aided design, engineering and instruction; Fluid mechanics and applications; Physics and material science; Student paper competition.

V.P. Lu, Y.-P. Li, and K.M. Mok, all the University of Macau. L.N. Lamas, National Civil Engineering Laboratory of Portugal (Formerly at the Civil Engineering Laboratory of Macau).

• Editors’ Foreword Preface, Keynote lecture: GBT-based computational approach to analyse the geometrically non-linear behaviour of steel and composite thin-walled members; Modeling cementitious materials behavior; Numerical modeling of metal forming – current practice and advanced applications; Recent advances in plate vibration research at the University of Hong Kong; Instabilities in deformation processes of solids; On various numerical simulation techniques for perforation of concrete panel by hard projectile; Applications of Toeplitz iterative solvers in science and engineering; Multiscale methods and its applications to Nano-mechanics and materials; On the duality between hybrid and block elements; Constitutive modelling of woven textile reinforcements and its application to high-pressure hydraulic hoses; High-accuracy difference and meshless methods for fluid and solid mechanics; Fuzzy finite element analysis of smart structures; Recent discoveries related to the use of Wittrick–Williams algorithm to solve transcendental eigenproblems; Wave barriers for reduction of train-induced vibrations; Advances in sparse solver for finite element analysis; Energy band analysis for periodical wave-guides; Numerical methods; Solid mechanics; Structural mechanics; Geotechnics; Geographical information systems; Artificial intelligence and software engineering; Software technology; Computer-aided design, engineering and instruction; Computer-aided design, engineering and instruction; Fluid mechanics and applications; Physics and material science; Student paper competition.