Welcome to the web site of the 2nd International Conference on Vehicle Body Engineering - VBE2025. The 2nd International Conference on Vehicle Body Engineering will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) on the 6th and 7th of November 2025.
TThis conference will be chaired by Lucas F. M. da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) and Eduardo A. S. Marques (University of Porto, Portugal). The focus of this conference is the study on the design of the structural components of the vehicle body and by including other transportation sectors (aerospace and railway). Novel research works carried out in various topics within these wider themes will be accepted.
Among the topics covered are: road vehicle structural design, aeronautical structural design, rolling stock structural design, material testing, structural testing, manufacture of complex structures, structural joining methods, structural monitoring, self-healing structures, numerical simulation of structures, numerical simulation of structural components, multibody simulation, impact performance of structures, dynamic behaviour of structures, durability of structures, fatigue design of complex structures and structural ligthtweighing techniques.
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:
13 June 2025
Notification of Acceptance to Authors:
27 June 2025
Early bird registration:
25 July 2025
Submission of papers (not compulsory)
6 November 2025
Instructions for abstract submission
Abstracts should be sent electronically to Lucas F M da Silva at lucas@fe.up.pt. Indicate in the email if you want oral or poster presentation.
Chairman
Lucas F M da Silva
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
lucas@fe.up.pt
Co-chairman
Eduardo A. S. Marques
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
emarques@fe.up.pt
Organising committee
Ricardo J. C. Carbas
Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal
carbas@fe.up.pt
Alireza Akhavan-Safar
Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal
aakhavan-safar@inegi.up.pt
Scientific committee
Aleksander Olejnik (Military University of Technology, Poland)
Alessandro Scattina (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Andris Chate (Čate) (Riga Technical University, Latvia)
Araliya Mosleh (University of Porto, Portugal)
Benoît Morlet (Dassault Aviation, France)
Bruno Castanié (INSA Toulouse, France)
Carlos Chaves (EMBRAER, Brazil)
Christoph David (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Fabian Duddeck (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Fabian Fischer (Volkswagen AG, Germany)
Fengzhen Sun (Tongji University, China)
Giovanni Belingardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Guangyong Sun (Hunan University, China)
Mahmood M Shokrieh (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)
Mauricio Donadon (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil)
Nuno Peixinho (University of Minho, Portugal)
Sebastian Guenther (CG Rail, Germany)
Shun-Peng Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China)
Thomas Koerwien (Airbus, Germany)
William Altenhof (Engineering University of Windsor, Canada)
Volnei Tita (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Xiao Han (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Xinqun Zhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Yeongdo Park (Dongeui University, Korea)
The conference programme will be made available soon.
The best oral presentation and the best poster will be awarded with a free registration in the VBE2027 conference