Introduction

The Vietnamese Association for Computational Mechanics (VACOM) is a non-governmental association. VACOM’s mission is to promote, foster, organize and coordinate various activities contributing to computational mechanics in Vietnam and to establish formal links with similar organizations in Asia-Pacific and worldwide. The Association is affiliated to the Asia-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).

VACOM shall serve as a formal vehicle for organizing and coordinating conferences, colloquia, symposia and other technical meetings to promote research, commercial and academic activities in the area of computational mechanics within Vietnam. In particular, the Association shall provide the Vietnam representation in the organization, planning and hosting of international conferences and shall periodically coordinate and organize Vietnamese conferences on computational mechanics.

About Computational Mechanics

Modeling and simulation play a key role in various scientific disciplines. Due to the restriction of classically analytical approaches or the costs of testing tools, modern computational methods together with computer devices tend to replace them and huge advances have been performed and developed. Computational Mechanics has therefore been born in the context of studying events governed by the principles of mechanics. It is the fundamentally important part of computational science and engineering concerned with the use of computational methods to characterize, predict, and simulate physical phenomena and engineering systems governed by the laws of mechanics.

Nowadays Computational Mechanics has made a significant contribution to the development of research, education and application throughout the world. In addition, Computational Mechanics has already been extended into neighbouring fields like computational physics, biology and chemistry. In particular, the interaction between single physic environments, resulting in multiphysics, fluid-structure interaction, coupled thermomechanics, thermodynamics, environmental sciences and more and more relevance, to mention only a few. From its definition, it is clear that computational mechanics plays an important role in all engineering science disciplines as well as in industries. This opens a great opportunity to bring people together from different disciplines, and of course from both academia and practice. Consequently, the interference between engineering science disciplines has been increased in daily work, on related conferences, and even in educational programs.

It is not exaggerated that successful research in Computational Mechanics is usually interdisciplinary in nature, reflecting a combination of concepts, methods, and principles that makes a bridge over several areas of mechanics, mathematics, computer sciences, and other scientific disciplines as well. Thus tomorrow’s research in Computational Mechanics will be more immense than ever before, spanning many novel technologies and scientific fields.