Books by Keyword: Reinforced Concrete Structures

Description: This volume contains the abstracts presented at the 8th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering (NME 2025), held in Ghent, Belgium, from 29 to 31 July 2025. The conference gathered international experts from academia and industry to discuss recent advances in numerical methods such as FEM, BEM, and IGA, and their application across a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines. Special focus was placed on the industrial relevance of numerical simulations in fields including Civil, Aerospace, Mechanical, Materials, Biomedical, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering. The aim was to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, promote innovation, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and methodologies among researchers and practitioners.

Description: This Special Issue of Key Engineering Materials, commemorating the 90th birthday of Professor Jan Sobota, attempts to provide a flavor of the wide range of his interest in and contributions to structural mechanics and the Finite Element Method. Professor Sobota was an outstanding academic teacher, in both didactic and pedagogical fields, a highly talented research worker, incorporating both theory and engineering practice. His attitude, industriousness, and cordiality brought him a great esteem among his co-workers and a students’ community. He was a pioneer in using the Finite Element Method, Transfer Matrix Method and the Boundary Integrals Method and its numerical modification Boundary Element Method in former Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia and the Czech Republic). Therefore, selected papers in this book are dealing with modeling and analyzing of various reinforced concrete structures and its parts mainly by the FEM. Different problems of structures, e.g. design of complicated structures, defects of structures, determination of wind load on atypical structures, soil-structure interactions, thermal effects, etc.; are involved and their suitable solutions are provided to readers.