Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher

MARCÍLIO ALVES , University of Sao Paulo BRAZIL , Brazil

Editors

ROGÉRIO JOSÉ MARCZAK , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS , Brazil
PABLO ANDRÉS MUÑOZ ROJAS , Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Joinville, SC , Brazil
MARCO L. BITTENCOURT , University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Associate Editors

JAN AWREJCEWICZ , Technical University of ?ódzki, Poland

Latin American Advisory Board

CARLOS ALBERTO DE ALMEIDA , Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
JOSÉ ROBERTO DE FRANÇA ARRUDA , Universidade Estadual de Campinas , Brazil
MARCELA ANDREA CRUCHAGA , Universidad de Santiago de Chile , Chile
LARISSA DRIEMEIER , University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP , Brazil
EDUARDO ALBERTO FANCELLO , Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC , Brazil
JULIO FLOREZ LOPEZ , Universidad de Los Andes , Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
HERALDO SILVA DA COSTA MATTOS, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ , Brazil
ANTONIO ANDRE NOVOTNY , LNCC/MCT, Petrópolis - RJ , Brazil
PAULO DE MATTOS PIMENTA , Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP , Brazil
SERGIO P. BARONCINI PROENÇA , Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP , Brazil
RUBENS SAMPAIO , Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Pontifí­cia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
VICTORIO SONZOGNI , INTEC, Santa Fe , Argentina
VALDER STEFFEN JR. , Universidade Federal de Uberlândia , Brazil
HANS INGO WEBER , Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ , Brazil

International Advisory Board

HOLM ALTENBACH , Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany , Germany
MASSIMILIANO AVALLE , Politecnico di Torino, II Facolta' di Ingegneria, Vercelli, Torino , Italy
MICHAEL BRÜNIG , Institut für Mechanik und Statik Universität der Bundeswehr München , Germany
ARILD H CLAUSEN , NTNU , Norway
CLAUDIA COMI , Politecnico di Milano, Milano , Italy
NARINDER GUPTA , Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi , India
NORMAN JONES , University of Liverpool, Liverpool , United Kingdom
DORA KARAGIOZOVA , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Bulgaria
YULONG LI , Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an , China
JIAHAO LIN , Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning , China
GERALD NURICK , University of Cape Town, Cape Town , South Africa
ANDREAS OECHSNER , Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University , Australia
J.N. REDDY , Texas A&M University , United States
JOSE CESAR DE SA , Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto , Portugal
PATRICK SELVADURAI , Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics McGill University
OLE SIGMUND , Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby , Denmark
PATRICIA VERLEYSEN , Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat , Belgium
T.X. YU , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay , Hong Kong