Editor-in-Chief:

Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers


Associate Editors:

Homayoun Hadavinia
Faculty of Engineering
Kingston University
London, United Kingdom

Atanas A. Popov
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Y.X. Zhang
School of Engineering and Information Technology
The University of New South Wales
Canberra, Australia



Regional Editors:

Farid Amirouche
Biomechanics Research Laboratory
University of Illinois of Chicago
Chicago, United States

Antonio F. Ávila
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Michael Brünig
Chair of Applied Mechanics-Statics
TU Dortmund University
Dortmund, Germany

Harijono Djojodihardjo
Faculty of Engineering
Al-Azhar University of Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia

Alexandre F. Galio
Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Federal University of Mato Grosso
Rondonopolis, Brazila

Wen-Hsiang Hsieh
Department of Automation Engineering
National Formosa University
Yunlin,Taiwan

Adolfo Senatore
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Salerno
Salerno, Italy

Editorial Advisory Board:

F. Abe (National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan)
T. Adachi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
M.A. Adli (Marmara Univ., Goztepe, Istanbul)
A.K. Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
G. Ahmadi (Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY, USA)
H. Ahmadian (Iran Univ. of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran)
J. Akbari (Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
B. Akpinar (Firat Univ., Elazig, Turkey)
A.A. Al-Abduljabbar (College of Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
S. Al-Hallaj (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA)
M. Alfano (Univ. of Calabria, Rende, Italy)
M.A. Al-Nimr (Jordan Univ. of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan)
W. Altenhof (Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, Canada)
A. Alvandi (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
I. Alvarez-Armas (Physics Institute of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina)
S. Amaitik (ATILIM Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
S. Amiri (Queen's Univ, Kingston, Canada)
M. Arif (Marmara Univ., Goztepe, Istanbul, Turkey)
D. Arivuoli (Anna University, Chennai, India)
I.A. Armas (Physics Institute of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina)
J. Awrejcewicz (Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
Y. Azoumah (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
A. Baïri (Université Paris X, Ville d'Avray, France)
G.C. Bakos (Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece)
K. Balamurugan (Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Tamil Nadu, India)
C. Bathias (CNAM/ITMA, Paris, France)
A. Beaudr (Concordia Univ., Montreal, Canada)
A. Berradja (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
A. Beyene (San Diego State Univ., San Diego CA, USA)
B. Bhattacharyya (Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India)
H. Bolandhemmat (Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada)
G.M. Carlomagno (Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy)
A. Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
A. Chakraborty (GM India Science Laboratory, Bangalore, India)
C.I. Chang (National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan)
J.J. Chanaron (Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France)
C.M. Chew (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Y.M. Chiew (Nanyang Technological Univ., Nanyang Ave, Singapore)
Y.I. Cho (Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA)
M.A. Chowdhury (Dhaka Univ. of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh)
A.K. Darpe (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India)
A. Datta (Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India)
A. De (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
A. Dewan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India)
C. Dundar (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey)
A. Fuentes-Aznar (Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Murcia, Spain)
L. Garibaldi (Politecnico de Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Ghosal (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
A. Graham (The Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
O.M. Haddad (Jordan Univ. of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan)
A.H. Haji (Shiraz Univ, Shiraz, Iran)
A.S. Hamdy (Central Metallurgical R&D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt)
H. Hocheng (National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan)
A. Hribernik (Univ. of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)
H.P. Hu (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
L. Huang (Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products Nanjing, Nanjing, China)
K.C. Hui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
J.J. Hwang (National Univ. of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan)
D.B. Ingham (Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
B.I. Ismail (Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada)
M. Iyer (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
L.S. Jang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Y. Jin (Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
A.L. Kalamkarov (Dalhousie Univ., Nova Scotia, Canada)
S. Kalogirou (Higher Technical Inst., Nicosia, Cyprus)
K.K. Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
M.M. Khonsari (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, USA)
R.A. Kumar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
A. Kushari (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
A.L. Lamikiz (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain)
C.Y. Lee (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
A. Leung (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
H. Li (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
C.W. Lim (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
A.G. Littlefield (US Army RDECOM-ARDEC BENET Labs, New Jersey, NY, USA)
K.H. Lo (The University of Macau, Macau)
P. Mahanta (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)
A. Manonukul (National Metal and Materials Technology Center, Pathumthani, Thailand)
J.M. Martin (Ecole Centrale de Lyon Univ., Lyon, France)
A. Masud (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
A.L. Mentxaka (Univ., of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
F. Miguel (University of Evora, Evora, Portugal)
A.S. Milani (The University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada)
G. Milani (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)
A.W. Miles (Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK)
A.T. Naveed (RETCan, Ottawa, Canada)
L. Nobile (Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
A. Nouri-Borujerdi (Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
D.M. Nuruzzaman (Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh)
A. Ortiz (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Málaga, Spain)
L. Pagnotta (University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy)
Z.J. Pei (Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA)
A. Preumont (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
L. Qin (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
M.A. Rahman (Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
S. Rainieri (University of Parma, Parma, Italy)
A. Ramezani (Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
A. Reali (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
A. Rinaldi (University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
M. Roy (Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India)
R. Ami Saada (Université Paris-Est, Marne-La-Vallée, France)
A. Sarhan (Assiut Univ., Assiut, Egypt)
G.C. Sih (East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China)
R. Singh (RMIT Univ., Bundoora, Australia)
A. Sirivat (Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand)
A. Spence (McMaster Univ., Ontario, Canada)
P.S. Sreejith (Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India)
M. Stack (Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
C.Y. Su (Concordia Univ., Quebec, Canada)
J.Q. Sun (Univ. of California, Merced, CA, USA)
Q. Sun (New Span Opto-Technology Inc., Miami, FL, USA)
Y.F. Sun (Zhengzhou Univ., Zhengzhou, China)
A.H. Tan (Ching-Yun Univ., Jung-Li, Taiwan)
S. Thyageswaran (Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India)
A. Trp (Univ. of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia)
K. Vafai (Univ. of California, California, CA, USA)
C. Wanji (Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China)
A. Wolf (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
F. Xi (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
R. Yang (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
J. Zhe (The University of Akron, OH, USA)
Z.W. Zhong (Nanyang Technological Univ, Singapore)